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FINAL REPORTS 



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CHAIRMEN OF COMMITTEES 



TO 



Edward J. Stellwagen 

CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE 
IN CHARGE OF 

THE INAUGURATION 

OF 

William Howard Taft 

AS 
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 



AND 

James Schoolcraft Sherman 

as 
VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 



AT WASHINGTON, D. C. 
MARCH 4, 1909 






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Gift from 
Mrs. Marcus Benjamin 
Dec 5, 1932 



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CONTENTS. 

Letter from the President 5 

Letter from the Vice-President 7 

Letter from Hon. Frank H. Hitchcock 9 

Letter from the Chairman of the Inaugural Committee 11 

The Inaugural Committee 13 

Report of Committee on Military Organizations and the Inaugural 

Parade 15 

Report of Committee on Finance 59 

Reception Committee 69 

Committe on Legislation ']'] 

Committee on Press 79 

Committee on Printing 81 

Committee on Souvenirs and Tickets 85 

Committee on Railroad Terminal Facilities 89 

Committee on Public Comfort 93 

Committee on Public Order 109 

Committee on Civic Organizations 125 

Committee on Parks and Reviewing Stands 129 

Committee on Street Decorations I33 

Committee on Marking Points of Historic Interest 137 

Committee on Illumination 141 

Committee on Fireworks I45 

Committee on Music I49 

Committee on Decoration 151 

Committee on Comfort at Ball i57 

The Floor Committee 163 

The Supper Committee 165 

Committee on Local Transportation 167 

Committee on Medals and Badges 169 

The Treasurer I73 

The Auditing Committee I7S 

Extract from "The Spectator" 185 



THE WHITE HOUSE 

Washington, March 8, 1909. 

My Dear Mr. Stellwagen : 

I write to thank you and the members of the Inaugural 
Committee for the beautiful gold medal and the gold 
mounted Souvenir of the inaugural ceremonies which you 
were good enough to send me. I am delighted to have them 
as remembrances of the occasion. 

I take this opportunity to thank you and the members of 
the Committee for the very efficient work which they have 
done. 

With best wishes, 

Very sincerely yours, 

Wm. H. Taft. 



Mr. Edward J. Stellwagen, 

Chairman Inaugural Committee, 
The Nezv Willard. 



Washington, March 9, 1909. 

Mr. E. J. Stellwagen, 

Chairman Inaugural Committee, 
Washington, D. C. 

My Dear Mr. Stellwagen, 

I have made repeated visits to the Inaugural Committee 
room for the purpose of offering my appreciative acknowl- 
edgments for the receipt of the inaugural medal and souvenir 
programme. They are both beautiful and elegant, and the 
possession of them gives me great pleasure. I thank you 
most sincerely, and, through you, the members of the Com- 
mittee whom you represent. 

May I further say that the considerate courtesy extended 
to me by the Inaugural Committee from the moment of ap- 
pointment to the moment of dictating this letter, has been 
appreciated to the full. Greater regard or more considera- 
tion could not have been extended to the greatest potentate 
on earth. I also want to congratulate the Committee for the 
admirable manner in which it handled the entire proceedings. 
Its members are especially deserving of congratulation con- 
sidering the adverse circumstances under which a portion of 
the programme was carried out. It seemed to me that every 
detail of the ball was not only arranged but carried out with 
absolute perfection. You certainly are entitled to the grati- 
tude and appreciation of us all. 

With cordial regard I am always, 

Very sincerely yours, 

J. S. Sherman. 



Washington, D. C, November 24, 1908. 

Mr. Edward J. Stellwagen, 

Washington, D. C. 

My Dear Mr. Stellwagen, 

By an established custom it falls on me as chairman of the 
Republican National Committee to arrange for the organi- 
zation of a citizens' committee to take charge of the ceremo- 
nies attending the inauguration of the President-elect. Act- 
ing in accordance with this custom I hereby designate you 
as Chairman of the Inaugural Committee. You will appoint 
the members of the Committee in such number as you deem 
desirable, its various officers, including one or more vice- 
chairmen, a secretary and a treasurer, the chairman of such 
sub-committees as seem necessary, and a grand marshal of 
the inaugural parade. 

Yours very truly, 

Frank H. Hitchcock, 

Chairman. 



H EADQU ARTERS 

The Inaugural Committee 
the new willard 

WASHINGTON 

March. 1909. 

To THE Inaugural Committee. 

Gentlemen : In this final report I desire to express first, 
and before all else, my personal thanks to this committee for 
accepting service and accomplishing intelligently, and with- 
out friction, such splendid work. 

Whatever credit the public has accorded to those having 
charge of the ceremonies of March, 1909, belongs entirely 
to you. Particularly is this so as to the Chairmen of the 
twenty-five sub-committees, who with their well selected 
associates, worked out in the greatest detail, and executed 
with precision, the important work undertaken. 

To the Grand Marshal and his Chief of Staff is due the 
credit of moving a body of nearly thirty thousand men, un- 
der weather conditions seldom met. That the parade was 
formed, started, and completed its line of march, exactly on 
schedule time, excited the admiration and favorable com- 
ment of those who were fortunate enough to witness it. 

The accompan3nng reports tell in detail the story of the 
Inaugural Ceremonies, and it is hoped, will be found useful 
by those who have charge of similar events in the future. 

The uniform courtesy shown me in the relations which 
have existed during the past few months will always remain 
a pleasant memory. 

Very truly yours, 

Edward J. Stellwagen. 




SI1|^ Stiaugural (Cnmrnttt^^ 

EDWARD J. STELLWAGEN, Chairman 

GEORGE E. HAMILTON, Vice-Chairman 

S. W. WOODWARD, Second Vice-Chairman 

CLARENCE F. NORMENT, Treasurer 

CORCORAN THOM, Secretary 



Milton E. Ailes 

Larz AnDERSOiN 

Maj. Gen. J. Franklin Bell 

Charles J. Bell 

Maj. James E. Bell 

Ira E. Bennett 

.Sidney Bieber 

Woodbury Blair 

Gist Blair 

William J. Boardman 

Scott C. Bone 

Frank S. Bright 

Alexander Britton 

Col. Charles S. Bromwell 

Richard N. Brooke 

Aldis B. Browne 

Frederick E. Chapin 

Maj. Spencer Cosby 

Murray A. Cobb 

William V. Cox 

VViiLLiAAi C. Denny 

Edward W. Donn, Jr. 

H. Rozier Dulany 

G. Thomas Dunlop 

Brig. Gen. Clarence R. Edwards 



John Joy Edson 
Maj. Gen. George F. Ellioit 
Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans 
John C. Eversman 
Henry W. Feather 
George E. Fleming 
Percy S. Foster 
Thomas J. D. Fuller 
Thomas M. Gale 
• Maj. Gen. G. L. Gillespie 
Charles C. Glover 
Bernard R. Green 
James M. Green 
Gilbert H. Grosvenor 
Gen. George H. Harries 
Walter S. Harban 
Samuel B. Hege 
Frank C. Henry 
James S. Henry 
William B. Hibbs 
■ James C. Hooe 
Maj. Thomas S. Hopkins 
Richard R. Horner 
Hennen Jennings 
Brig. Gen. John A. Johnston 



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Rudolph Kauffmann 

D. J. Kaufman 
A. M. Keppel 
Frank A. Kidd 
John B. Larner 
a. m. lothrop 

Hon. Henry B. F. Macfarland 

James Rush Marshall 

Rear Admiral Newton E. Mason 

William A. Mearns 

Brig. Gen. Anson Mills 

Maj. J. J. Morrow 

Thomas P. Morgan 

Arthur C. Moses 

Frank A. Munsey 

Lieut. Col. Chas. L. McCawley 

Frederick B. McGuire 

J. Nota McGill 

George X. McLanahan 

John R. McLean 

Wallace D. McLean 

James L. Norris 

Theodore W. Noyes 

James F. Oyster 

E. Southard Parker 
Col. M. M. Parker 



Capt. Andrew Parker 

Col. James G. Payne 

H. C. Perkins 

R. Ross Perry 

Maj. Duncan C. Phillips 

D. S. Porter 

Frank P. Reeside 

Howard S. Reeside 

CuNo H. Rudolph 

Edgar D. Shaw 

Maj. Richard D. Simms 

J. H. Small, Jr. 

A. S. Solomons 

Gen. Ellis Spear 

Joseph M. Stoddard 

Maj. Richard Sylvester 

Robert H. Terrell 

Col. George Trues dell 

\¥iLLiAM P. Van Wickle 

Thomas F. Walsh 

Brainard H. Warner 

Michael I. Weller 

Hon. Henry L. West 

Brig. Gen. John M. W^ilson 

Gen. Maxwell V. Z. Woodhull 



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Qlnmmitt^^ on IHUttarg ©rganxHaltntia 
E\^t Jttaugural TFarai^ 

Maj. Gen. J. Franklin Bell, Grand Marshal and Chairman. 

General George H. Harries, Vice-Chairman 

Lieutenant Colonel E. M. Weaver, Secretary 

Brigadier General John A. Johnston, Chief of Staff 

Major Samuel D. Sturgis, Adjutant General 



Mr. Edward J. Stellwagen, 

Chairman Inaugural Committee, 

Union Trust Building, Washington, D. C. 
Dear Sir: 

I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your request 
for my report as Grand Marshal and as Chairman of the 
Committee on Military Organizations, the same ''to set out 
fully the work done." 

It would not be possible, even if it were desirable, to set 
forth fully the skill, tact, judgment, and continuous daily 
effort displayed for three months by my subordinates and 
assistants in disposing of the multitude of detail attendant 

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upon the preliminary arrangements for the Inaugural 
Parade. Suffice it to say I was blessed with most skillful 
and efficient staff officers who attained complete success in 
the final grouping of the many organizations that composed 
it, in spite of the innumerable difficulties, and unforseen 
contingencies which necessitated changes and rearrange- 
ments up to the last moment. = 

The summation of all of it is contained in the General and 
Special Orders, Circulars, Memoranda, and Parade Map, 
three copies of each of which are sent you under separate 
cover. 

I desire to call your especial attention to General Order 
No. 4, for file and incorporation in the reference volume to 
be published by the Inaugural Committee as evidence, in 
part, of the administrative and executive work necessary 
for the mobilization, at Washington, of military organiza- 
tions aggregating more than 21,000, exclusive of the Brig- 
ade of Midshipmen, U. S. Naval Academy. This Brigade, 
aggregating 849, was held at Annapolis as a result of the 
storm, which made it impossible for the railroad to get cars 
delivered in time. The figures are also exclusive of the 
High School Cadet Regiment and Separate High School 
Cadet Battalion of the District, aggregating 1,208, both hav- 
ing been withdrawn on account of the weather. The 
Seventh Regiment of Infantry, National Guard, New York, 
aggregating 644, though present, was much delayed by the 
storm and arrived too late to march in the Military Grand 
Division; it was reviewed b}^ the President and Governor 
Hughes the following morning. 

The Corps of Cadets of the U. S. Military Academy at 
West Point, N. Y., numbering 465, in the midst of the pre- 
vailing blizzard, worked its way, clearing the tracks of 
wreckage wrought by the storm, from Baltimore to Wash- 
ington, and arrived in time to march at the head of the 
Second Division, Military Grand Division. The brigade of 
U. S. Troops from the District of Columbia and vicinity 

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aggregated 1,200. Part of the Cuban Army of Pacification, 
aggregating 1,600, arrived in time for the parade, direct 
from Cuba after two years and four months of successful 
service in the cause of peace in that Island. This total of 
3,265 U. S. Army forces was increased by a provisional 
regiment, aggregating 965, of U. S. Marines, and a brigade, 
aggregating 2,058, U. S. Seamen. This latter organization 
was brought here to participate in this great ceremonial 
parade after having circumnavigated the world as part of 
the naval fleet that returned on Washington's birthday, Feb- 
ruary 22, 1909, to Hampton Roads whence it departed on 
December 16, 1907. 

General Order No. 4 is, therefore, of particular historic 
value in such a publication as the Committee contemplates. 

General Order No. 4 shows also the length and breadth 
of the country from which came Governors of States, 
National Guard, Independent Military Bodies and Cadets 
from Military Schools and Universities, aggregating in 
number nearly 15,000; and a Grand Division of Civic 
Organizations, aggregating 8,700 men, making a total 
aggregation of 29,850 actual participants — the largest 
number that has ever taken part in this quadrennial function, 
without including General O. O. Howard's Division of 
Veterans, to whom was accorded the honor of the morning 
escort from the White House to the Capitol. 

General Order No. 4 and the accompanying Parade Map 
show the organization and assembly into Military, Veteran 
and Civic Grand Divisions respectively, and the rules gov- 
erning their prompt movement according to published time 
schedule. The mobilization, assembly and marching of this 
army, well within the time schedule, under most unfavorable 
weather conditions, without error or misdirection of any 
part, was a feat for which my staff officers deserve the credit 
and of which they have a right to feel proud. 

The duty of morning escort by the Veteran Grand Divi- 
sion only, under rules of precedence prescribed for the Pres- 



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ident's New Year's Reception and in the U. S. Infantry 
Drill Regulations, followed the precedent of four years ago 
and for the reasons upon which that precedent was based. 
The fact, however, should be recorded for future reference 
that, for the first time, a place therein, at the rear of the 
Veteran Division, was assigned to the Sons of Veterans, at 
the request of Major Thomas S. Hopkins, Captain Arthur 
Hendricks and Hosea B. Moulton of General Howard's 
Staff, representing the Grand Army of the Republic, and 
after obtaining the united consent thereto of the proper 
authorities of all other veteran organizations participating. 

According to the same precedent, the U. S. Arm}^ Ma- 
rines and Seamen, the National Guard, independent Mili- 
tary Organizations, Cadets of Military Universities, Col- 
leges, and Schools, composing the Military Grand Division, 
together with the Civic Grand Division, both in order of 
precedence described in General Order No. 4, v/ere accorded 
the honor of the afternoon escort and review by the Presi- 
dent. In this connection it might be well to record also, 
for future reference, that the National Militia Board, in 
session in this city, unanimously supported the Grand Mar- 
shal in the decision that, following the precedent of four 
years ago, the National Guard should be assigned position 
in the column immediately following the forces of the 
United States, and that no organization not reported to the 
War Department as part of the National Guard should be 
assigned as escort of any sort, or otherwise, to a place 
within the National Guard column, all such being segregated 
in a separate brigade. This rule included state-aided mili- 
tary colleges, schools and universities which, though a part 
of the State Militia, like the Virginia Military Institute, are 
not a part of the National Guard of the country as reported 
to the War Department. 

The personal escort of the President, accompanying his 
carriage, and therefore detachable from the column if neces- 
sary, at a rapid pace, was confined by special designation of 

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the President-elect to Troop *'A," Ohio National Guard, a 
mounted organization. This troop performed its duty 
admirably, and after passing in review did valuable service 
on the Avenue in connection with the prompt movement of 
the column, which was not delayed to any marked degree by 
any organization in the entire column except one. This 
exception was the John E. Reyburn Club of Philadelphia 
which, as the second organization of the Third Brigade, 
First Division, destroyed the integrity of that brigade by 
following the first organization at a distance of about three 
or four hundred yards, thus isolating, at the head of the 
brigade, the Young Men's Republican Tariff Club of Pitts- 
burg, and thus causing it to appear that they themselves were 
at the head of the brigade. Fortunately all other organiza- 
tions complied so well with the letter and spirit of the Grand 
Marshal's instructions that, with the greatest number ever 
participating in this function, it was concluded a half hour 
earlier than has heretofore obtained where approximately 
equal numbers were present. 

The occasion seems to be particularly proper, also, for 
repetition of the statement that marching organizations of 
boys of tender years should be excluded from this function. 

The Street Cleaning Department deserves great credit for 
its work of clearing the Avenue of snow from the White 
House to the entrance of the Capitol Grounds, but as the 
organization and probably the appropriation, not made in 
anticipation of such blizzard weather conditions, did not 
provide for a clearance of snow from the assembly streets 
and the Capitol driveways used, all foot troops and civilian 
organizations were compelled to stand for a time and to 
march in deep slush that was augmented, across the Capitol 
Grounds, by the clogged drainage of a great flow of water 
used to wash the snow from the seats of the Capitol stand. 
It will be wise to provide, hereafter, against this whole 
contingency if, unfortunately for the many thousands who 
will attend, the date be not changed to a later day. 



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The Office of the Grand Marshal was opened at Room 
No. 221, War Department, December 13, 1908, and closed 
March 10, 1909. 

The accounting of the office is as follows : 

Receipts. 

Allotment $1,025.00 

Due from Committee on Civic Organ- 
izations 3950 

$1,064.50 

Expenditures. 

Voucher No. i, W. F. Roberts Co., 

Printing and Stationery $i7-85 

Voucher No. 2, Fred Barnes, salary __ 60.00 

Voucher No. 3, Fred Barnes, salary 60.00 

Voucher No. 4, David W. Jacobs, 

salary 40.00 

Voucher No. 5, Bailey, Banks & Bid- 
die, Engraving Plates and Com- 
missions 78.00 

Voucher No. 6, Bliss, Albrech & Co., 

Stationery 3.75 

Voucher No. 7, H. B. Moulton, A. G. 
Vet. Div., Stenographic Work, 
Stamps, etc. 4.88 

Voucher No. 8, Norris-Peters Co., 

Parade Maps 65.00 

Voucher No. 9, W. F. Roberts Co., 

Stationery and Printing 211.75 

Voucher No. 10, Frank S. Wagner, 

Parade Markers 395-76 

Voucher No. 11, War Department 

Telegraph Office, telegraphing • 10.35 

Voucher No. 12, John A. Johnston, 

Postage Stamps 33-^3 

Voucher No. 13, David W. Jacobs, 

salary 33.33 

Voucher No. 14, Fred Barnes, salary 50.00 

$1,064.50 $1,064.50 



In this connection I beg to state that, while there was con- 
stituted a Committee on Military Organizations, with my- 
self as Chairman, Brigadier-General George H. Harries, 
Vice-Chairman, and Lieutenant-Colonel E. M. Weaver, 



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U. S. Army, Secretary, and while it was thought, because 
of Colonel Weaver's official position as Chief of the Divi- 
sion of Militia Affairs and Secretary of the National Militia 
Board, that the Committee would serve the useful purpose of 
stimulating the interest of Militia authorities, nevertheless, 
there was very early found to be an unnecessary duplication 
of effort in this respect, and it seemed to be the wiser course 
to allow the whole business involved to fall into the office 
of the Grand Marshal, where it naturally belongs. The 
organization of a separate committee on Military Organiza- 
tions seems to be practically useless. 

The foregoing statement does not include any charge for 
office rooms, desks, desk furniture, light, heat or telephone. 

This office, getting in touch with the railroads, was 
informed that, exclusive of trains parked at Pennsylvania 
Avenue, Southeast, and the Eastern Branch, the Pennsylva- 
nia Railroad arranged to quarter, on 141 cars, fifteen mili- 
tary and thirty civic organizations or parties, distributed at 
Fourteenth, Ninth, and Sixth Street yards; and the Balti- 
more & Ohio twenty-one military and thirty-two civic organ- 
izations or parties on 296 cars at their New York and Flor- 
ida Avenue yard; i. e., ninety-eight organizations or parties 
on 437 cars. This was a condition necessary to be known as 
affecting the assembly and dismissal of the parade and was, 
I understand, due to an early reported scarcity elsewhere 
of available quarters at reasonable prices. I am told that, 
ultimately, there proved to be ample quarters to have shel- 
tered all concerned. 

In conclusion, I beg to acknowledge, with very great 
pleasure, the friendly coordination of effort and considera- 
tion on the part of inter-related committees affecting the 
parade feature of the day which obtained to a marked degree 
throughout the three months of continuous preparatory 
effort. This was especially true of Major Thomas S. Hop- 
kins and his associates, representing the Veterans, and of 



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Major Thomas P. Morgan, Chairman of the Committee on 

Civic Organizations, and his able and courteous assistants. 

With assurances of my high regard and the pleasure my 

association with you has afforded me, I have the honor to be 

Very truly yours, 

J. E. Bell^ 

Major-General, Chief of Staff, U. S. A., 
Grand Marshal. 



HEADQUARTERS OF THE GRAND MARSHAL, 
Room 221 War Department. 



General Orders, | Washington, D. C, 

No. 4. j February 2^, ipop. 

The following orders for the organization, movement and 
dismissal of the Inaugural Parade are published for the in- 
formation and guidance of all concerned. The success of 
the Parade and its prompt movement past the President 
within the three hours of daylight available for the purpose 
depends upon an exact compliance with the instructions here- 
inafter contained, particularly those which require the col- 
umn to be kept closed, and those zvhich prohibit any changes 
of formation or any exhibition iiiovements. (Pars. HI and 
VIH.) 



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ORGANIZATION 



I. The Parade is organized as follows 



A. Military Grand Division. 



Lieutenant General JOHN C. BATES, U. S. Army, Chief Marshal. 



'First Brigade Corps of Cadets, 

U.S.M.A. 
Brig. Gen.W.W.WoTHERSPOON, Midshipmen, 
U. S. Army, Marshal. U.S.N. A. 

Cadets U. S. 
Revenue Cut- 
ter Service. 



Second Brigade 

Col. Joseph Garrard, 
U. S. Army, Marshal. 



FIRST DIVISION. 

Maj. Gen. C. F. Humphrey, -< 
U. S. Army, Marshal. 



Third Brigade 

Cuban Army Pacification. 

Col. C. D. COWLES, 

U. S. Army, Marshal. 



Fourth Brigade 

Battle Ship Fleet Brigade. 
Rear Admiral W. P. Potter, 

U. S. Navy, Marshal. 



Fifth Brigade 

Brig. Gen. G. H. Harries, 
N. G., D. C, Marshal. 



Provisional Regt. 
U. S. Engrs. 
and Coast Ar- 
tillery. 2d. 
Batt'n, 3d U. 
S. Field Ar- 
tillery. 1st 
Squadron 15th 
U. S. Cav'y. 
Co. A. U. S. 
Hosp. Corps. 

nth U. S. Inf., 
5th U. S. Inf., 
ist Batt'n, 2d 
U. S. Field 
Artillery, nth 
U. S. Cav'y. 

Regt. U. S. Ma- 
rines, U. S. 
Seamen from 
U. S. S. Con- 
necticut, Ver- 
mont, Geor- 
gia, Louisia- 
na, Wiscon- 
sin, Illinois, 
Kearsarge, 
Kentucky. 

National Guard, 
District of 
Columbia. 



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SECOND DIVISION. 



('First Brigade 

Gov. Simeon S. Pennewill, 
Delaware, Marshal. 



Second Brigade 



Gov. Simeon S. Pennewill, ^ Qov. Eben S. Draper, 



Marshal. 



Massachusetts, Marshal. 



Third Brigade 

Gov. Austin L. Crothers, 
Maryland, Marshal. 



National Guard, 
Del., Pa., N. 
J., Ga. and 
Conn. 

Massachusetts 

Volunteer 

Militia. 



National Guard, 
Md., S. C, 
and Va. 



'First Brigade 

Gov. Charles E. Hughes, 
New York, Marshal. 



Second Brigade 
Gov. Judson Harmon, 
Ohio, Marshal. 



THIRD DIVISION. 

Gov. Charles E. Hughes, 
Marshal. 



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Third Brigade 



National Guard, 
N. Y., R. I., 
Vt. and Ky. 



National Guard, 
Ohio, La., 
Ind., Miss., 
111., Me., Mo., 
Minn., Id., 
Worcester 
Continentals, 
Washington 
Infantry. 



Military Cadet 
Organizations 
of Universi- 
ties, Colleges 
and Schools. 
Independent 
Company 
"Gray Invin- 
cibles." 



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B. Veteran Division. 

Major General O. O. HOWARD, U. S. Army, Chief Marshal. 

Captain Arthur Hendricks, Chief of Staff. 

HosEA B. MouLTON, Adjutant General. 

Thomas S. Hopkins, Assistant Adjutant General. 

Colonel Myron M. Parker, Assistant Adjutant General. 

Major W. W. Eldridge, Assistant Adjutant General. 

Captain A. S. Perham, Assistant Adjutant General. 

Lieutenant Colonel Jas. W. Howard, Chief Aid. 



Aids. 



General Theo. S. Peck 
General J. Edwin Browne 
General D. L. Staunton 
Colonel C. H. Lyman 
Colonel L C. Kimball 
Colonel E. C. Ireland 
Lieut. Col. Jelaymon Cuyler 
Major Frank A. Butts 
Major L. P. Williams 
Major F. S. Hodgson 
Captain Franklin Phillips 
Captain B. T. Janney 
Captain W. H. Norton 
Captain F. D. Millet 
Captain W. H. Proctor 
Captain C. A. Sidman 
Captain J. L. Smith 



General S. W. Burdett 
General Richard Bowerman 
General C. W. Newton 
Colonel L W. Stone 
Colonel G. C. Kniffin 
Colonel H. D. Norton 
Major E. R. Campbell 
Major John McElroy 
Major J. A. McDowell 



Capta 
Capta 
Capta 
Capta 
Capta 
Capta 
Capta 



n C. O. Howard 

n Frederick Chamberlin 

n J. W. Mitchell 

n O. H. Oldroyd 

n S. H. Woodrow 

n B. P. Entrikin 

n G. C. Rounds 



Lieutenant V. L. Garrigus 



Grand Army of the Republic. 

4th Band, U. S. Coast Artillery. 

Department of the Potomac. 

General Edwin H. Holbrook, Commanding. 

Department of Maryland. 
General Robert C. Suxstrom, Commanding. 

Union Veteran Legion. 

Department of the Potomac. 

General Thomas J. Shannon, Commanding. 

United Spanish War \^eterans. 

Department of the Potomac. 

General Charles W. Newton, Commanding. 



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Army and Navy Union. 
Department of the Potomac. 

General J. Edwin Browne^ Commanding. 

Army of the Phihppines. 
General P. J. H. Farrell, Commanding. 

Sons of Veterans. 
Major Henry Stewart, Commanding. 



C. Civic Grand Division. 
THOMAS P. MORGAN, Chief Marshal. 



FIRST DIVISION. 
John F. O'Neil, Marshal. 



( First Brigade. 

Col. JogEPH C. Bonner, Marshal. 

Second Brigade. 

Hon. W. C. Wotherbee, Marshal 

Third Brigade. 

Major Frank McComb, Marshal. 



SECOND DIVISION. 
W. H. Yerkes, Marshal. 



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( First Brigade. 

W. Hart Dexter, Marshal. 

Second Brigade. 

Chas. T. Lindsey, Marshal. 



Third Brigade. 

Chas. P. Swett, Marshal. 



THIRD DIVISION. 

E. D. WiLLisTON, Marshal. 



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( First Brigade. 

Col. P. H. Carson, Marshal. 

Second Brigade. 
Hon. J. M. Turner, Marshal. 

Third Brigade. 
Rev. W. L. Taylor, Marshal. 



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The parade ceremonies of the day are : 

II. Escort of the President from the White House to the 
Capitol at 10.00 A. M. 

III. Distances. 

IV. Afternoon assembly of the Miltary and Civic Grand 
Divisions. 

V. Escort of the President from the Capitol to the White 
House at the conclusion of his inaugural address, at about 
1.20 o'clock P. M. 

VI. Review of the Military and Civic Grand Divisions by 
the President from the latter 's stand in front of the White 
House at 2.45 P. M. 

VII. Dismissal of Parade. 



II. Escort from the White House to the Capitol. 

A. M. ASSEMBLY OF GRAND MARSHAL'S STAFF, 
PRESIDENT'S PERSONAL AND VETERAN ESCORT. 

The President, accompanied by his personal escort, com- 
posed of Troop A, National Guard of Ohio, will be escorted 
at 10 A. M. from the White House to the Capitol by the 
Grand Marshal and Staff, and a Division composed of Vet- 
erans of the Civil and Spanish-American Wars and of the 
Regular Army and Navy of the United States, commanded 
by Major General Oliver O. Howard, U. S. xArmy. 

This escort will be formed at 9.30 A. M., as follows : 

The staff and aids of the Grand Marshal will assemble at 
9.30 o'clock A. M. on 15th Street, north of Pennsylvania 
Avenue, and will be formed facing south in column of pla- 
toons of eight files each, staff and special aids leading, head 
of column at Pennsylvania Avenue. 

Troop A, National Guard, State of Ohio, will be formed 

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in line facing south, at 9.30 o'clock A. M. on the north side 
of Pennsylvania avenue, the right of the line at Jackson 
Place, and so that in forming column of platoons to the left, 
the right will be in front. 

The Division of Veterans will be formed in line on the 
south side of Pennsylvania avenue, facing north, at 9.30 
o'clock A. M., the left of the Spanish War Veterans at the 
west gate of the White House grounds, the line extending 
east to 15th street and thence along the west curb of the lat- 
ter and the south curb of Pennsylvania avenue as may be 
necessary. The Veterans of the Army and Navy of the 
United States (Army and Navy Union) will assemble in 
column on Pennsylvania avenue, facing east, at 9.30 o'clock 
A. M., head of column at Executive avenue west prepared to 
follow the Veterans of the Civil and Spanish Wars. The 
Veterans of the Army of the Philippines will assemble in 
column on Pennsylvania avenue in rear of the Veterans of 
the Army and Navy Union at 9.35 o'clock A. J\I. The Sons 
of Veterans will assemble in column in rear of the Veterans 
of the Philippines at 9.40 o'clock A. M. 

The President will be received by his personal and veteran 
escort as he comes out of the west gate of the White House. 
and immediately thereafter Troop A will form column of 
platoons (16 troopers each) to the left and, preceded by the 
Grand Marshal, his Staff and Aids, will march to the 
Capitol. 

The Marshal of the Veteran Division and Staff will as- 
semble at 9.30 o'clock A. M. on New York avenue facing 
west, the Marshal at 15th street prepared to follow immedi- 
ately in rear of the Presidential party in carriages. 

The Spanish and Civil War Veterans will, by successive 
posts from the left, wheel to the right by platoons (16 files 
front exclusive of guides) and stand fast until the right 
flank of the division is uncovered by the Presidential party, 
when the division, as escort, will take up its march to the 
Capitol immediately following the Presidential party. 

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The Grand Marshal's Staff and Aids, conducted by the 
Adjutant General, will proceed through B street north to 
1st street east, thence south on 1st street east, from which 
they will turn west into the Capitol grounds on the central 
roadway opposite East Capitol street, military aids passing 
to the right and civilian aids to the left of the photographers' 
stand, and halting in line immediately in front of same. 

The personal escort of the President, preceded by the 
Grand Marshal and his color guard, will leave the column at 
B street north and Delaware avenue, and turning south into 
the Capitol grounds, will escort the Presidential party to the 
steps of the Senate wing of the Capitol, after which the 
Grand Marshal's color guard will take post in front of the 
center of his Staff as above disposed, and Troop A and the 
Presidential carriages will move to B street south, thence 
east on B street south to 1st street east, thence north on 1st 
street east, and be disposed as follows : Troop A on the road- 
Avay immediately on the left of the center roadway, and the 
Presidential carriages on the southeast roadway. 

The Veteran Division, following the personal escort into 
the Capitol grounds, and passing in review of the Marshal 
of the Division poster for the time in front of the staff of 
the Grand Marshal, will move along the east front of the 
Capitol to B street south where they will be dismissed. 



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AFTERNOON ASSEMBLY OF THE 
MILITARY AND CIVIC GRAND DIVISION. 

III. DISTANCES. 

For foot troops the distance between platoons or com- 
panies will be eight paces ; for cavalry and field artillery full 
distance; between battalions sixteen paces; between regi- 
ments twenty-four paces ; between brigades forty-eight paces, 
and between divisions one hundred paces. 

All Commanding Officers zvill give special instriictions that 
these distances shall he not increased for any reason zvhat- 
ever. 

By direction of the President, Aids specially detailed from 
the Staff of the Grand Marshal will be posted along the line 
of march, whose duty it will be to see that the column is kept 
closed and moving, and to communicate with the President 
and with the Headquarters of the Grand Marshal as to the 
progress of the Parade at their respective Parade telephone 
stations. 

IV. ASSEMBLY OF MILITARY GRAND DIVISION. 

The Chief Marshal of the Military Grand Division, the 
Marshal of the 1st Military Division and their staffs will 
place themselves respectively on the left of the Grand Mar- 
shal's staff as posted opposite of the inaugural stand on the 
east front of the Capitol at 12.30 P. M. 

The First Division organized as prescribed in paragraph 
XVI will assemble by brigades in column of platoons in 
double rank (16 files front exclusive of guides) closed to 
eight paces, as follows : 

The First Brigade, composed of the U. S. Corps of Cadets 
from West Point, the Midshipmen from Annapolis, and a 
company of Cadets, U. S. Revenue Cutter Service, approach- 
ing the Capitol from the south through New Jersey avenue 

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will enter the Capitol grounds, the head of column halting 
opposite the steps of the House wing at 12.00 M. 

The Second Brigade, composed of U. S. forces stationed 
in and near the District of Columbia, will assemble at 12.15 
o'clock P. M., marching east through C street, southwest, 
and thence north on New Jersey avenue, head of column in 
rear of First Brigade. 

The Third Brigade, Cuban Army of Pacification, will as- 
semble at 12.25 o'clock P. M., marching east through D 

street southwest, and thence north on New Jersey avenue, 

head of column halting at C street. 

The Fourth Brigade, U. S. Marines and Seamen, march- 
ing north through 2d street southeast, west through C street 
southeast, and north through 1st street southeast, will turn 
west on B street southeast, and halt with head of column at 
New Jersey avenue, at 12.30 o'clock P. M. 

The Fifth Brigade, National Guard of the District of Col- 
umbia, moving south on 1st street east, will assemble at 
12.30 P. M., head of column at B street southeast. 

The Marshal of the Second Military Division with staff 
and escort of 1st Delaware Infantry, will take position at its 
head at 1st and B streets southeast, at 12.40 P. M. 

The Second Division, National Guard Forces of the sev- 
eral States, organized as prescribed in paragraph XVI and 
composed of National Guards of the States of Delaware, 
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachu- 
setts, Maryland, South Carolina and Virginia, led by their 
respective governors and staffs, will be assembled by brig- 
ades, in column of platoons in double rank (16 files front ex- 
clusive of guides) closed to eight paces, as follows: 

First Brigade, composed of National Guard of Pennsyl- 
vania, New Jersey, Georgia, and Connecticut, on B street 
southeast, at 1 P. M., head of column at 1st street east. 

Second Brigade, composed of National Guard of Massa- 
chusetts, on B street southeast in rear of the First Brigade 
at 1.10 P. M. 



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Third Brigade, composed of National Guard of Mary- 
land, South Carolina, and Virginia, on 6th street east, facing- 
south, at 1.20 P. M., head of column at B street southeast. 

The Marshal of the 3d Military Division and staff will 
take position at its head at 5th and B streets southeast at 1.25 
P. M. 

The Third Division, organized as prescribed in paragraph 
XVI and composed of National Guards of New York, 
Rhode Island, Vermont, Kentucky, Ohio, Louisiana, In- 
diana, Mississippi, Illinois, Maine, Missouri, Minnesota, and 
Idaho, led by their respective governors and staffs (also of 
miscellaneous military bodies and of military cadet organi- 
zations), will be assembled by brigades in column of platoons 
in double rank (16 files front exclusive of guides), closed to 
eight paces, as follows : 

First Brigade, composed of National Guards of New 
York, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Kentucky, on 5th street 
east facing south at 1.30 P. M., head of column at B street 
southeast. 

Second Brigade, composed of National Guards of Ohio, 
Louisiana, Indiana, Mississippi, Illinois, Maine, Missouri, 
Minnesota, and Idaho, and Worcester Continentals, and 
Washington Infantry, on 4th street east facing south at 1.40 
P. M., head of column at B street southeast. 

Third Brigade, composed of military cadet organizations 
o£ universities, colleges and schools, on 3d street east at 1.50 
P. M., head of column at B street southeast, followed by 
Gray Invincibles Company Infantry. 

UNASSIGNED AND BELATED MILITARY ORGANIZATIONS. 

Second street east is reserved for the assembly, in order of 
arrival, of unassigned or belated military organizations un- 
able to get to assigned positions before the movement of the 
parade column. These will march at the rear of the Military 
Grand Division. 



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ASSEMBLY OF CIVIC GRAND DIVISION. 

Headquarters ; Staff ; the Americus Club as escort to the 
Chief Marshal; and the Citizens Taft Club, the Conklino 
Unconditionals and the Sherman Scouts united as the escort 
of the Civic Grand Division, marching in the order pre- 
scribed in paragraph XVI, will assemble in column of com- 
panies of not less than 20 files front, exclusive of guides. 
and closed to ten paces, as follows : 

Headquarters, Staff, and the Citizens Taft Club in New 
Jersey avenue northwest, head of column at B street north- 
west, at 2.00 P. M. 

The Conkling Unconditionals in Arthur Place northwest, 
head of column at B street northwest, at 2.10 P. M. 

The Americus Club in First street, south of Peace Monu- 
ment, facing north, head of column at Pennsylvania avenue, 
at 2.00 P. M. 

The Sherman Scouts, marching northeast through Mary- 
land avenue southwest, will halt on 1st street facing north in 
rear of the Americus Club at 2.10 P. M. 

Special Aids will be assigned with each of these clubs to 
insure their respective entrances to the parade column at the 
proper time and place. 

The First Division, organized as prescribed in paragraph 
XVI, will assemble on 1st street northwest, 1)y brigades in 
column of companies facing south in single rank, 20 file^ 
front exclusive of guides, and closed to ten paces. 

Headquarters and Staff of the Marshal of the First Divi- 
sion in 1st street northwest, head of column at B streec 
northwest, facing south, at 2.10 P. M. 

The First Brigade at 2.20 P. M., on 1st street northwest, 
head of column at C street northwest; the Second Brigade 
at 2.30 P. M., in rear of First Brigade ; the Third Brigade at 
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The Second Division, organized as prescribed in paragraph 
XVI, will assemble by brigades in close column of companies, 
not less than 20 files front, exclusive of guides, and closed to 
ten paces, as follows : 

Headquarters and Staff of the Marshal of the Second 
Division in 2d street northwest, head of column at Pennsyl- 
vania avenue, facing south, at 2.40 P. M. 

The First Brigade at 2.40 P. M. on 2d street northwest, 
head of column at B street northwest ; the Third Brigade at 
3.00 P. M. in rear of First Brigade. 

The Second Brigade of the Second Division, organized as 
in paragraph XVI, composed of all civic bodies quartered on 
the south side of Pennsylvania avenue, and to the south 
thereof, will assemble by marching northeast on Maryland 
avenue southwest to 3d street southwest, and thence north on 
3d street southwest to Pennsylvania avenue, head of column 
at Pennsylvania avenue, facing north, at 2.50 P. M. A 
special aid will be assigned to this brigade to insure its en- 
trance to the parade column at the proper time and place. 

The Third Division, organized as prescribed in paragraph 
XVI, will assemble at 3.10 P. M,, on 3d street northwest, in 
column of companies, facing south in single rank, 20 files 
front exclusive of guides, and closed to ten paces, head of 
column at B street northwest. 

Headquarters and Staff of the Marshal of the Third Divi- 
sion on 3d street northwest at Pennsylvania avenue at 3.00 
P. M. 

UNASSIGNED AND BELATED CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS. 

Four-and-a-half street north of Pennsylvania avenue will 
be reserved for the assembly, in order of arrival, of all un- 
assigned, or belated civic bodies quartered on the north side 
of Pennsylvania avenue, and to the north thereof, who have 
not been or cannot get to assigned places before the move- 

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ment of the parade column begins. These will march in rear 
of the Third Division. 

Four-and-a-half street south of Pennsylvania avenue will 
be reserved for the assembly, in order of arrival, of all unas- 
signed or belated civic bodies quartered on the south side of 
Pennsylvania avenue and to the south thereof, who have not 
been or cannot get to assigned places before movement of 
parade column begins. These will march in rear of the un- 
assigned and belated bodies on the north side of Pennsylvania 
avenue. 

Special aids will be assigned to insure entrance of each to 
the parade column at the proper time and place. 

V. ESCORT FROM THE CAPITOL TO THE WHITE HOUSE. 

At the conclusion of his inaugural address the President 
will be received at the speaker's stand by the First Brigade, 
First Division, Military Grand Division, and the column will 
immediately move in the order designated in paragraph 
XVI, each division and brigade taking up the march as its 
head is cleared by the division or brigade preceding it in the 
column. 

The route will be north through the Capitol grounds to B 
street north, thence to 1st street west, thence to Pennsylvania 
avenue, thence on Pennsylvania avenue to 15th street, thence 
north to Pennsylvania avenue, where the column will be 
halted wdiile the President's personal escort (passing the 
Grand Marshal and his staff, now formed in line along the 
east curb of 15th street, right at New York avenue) will 
conduct the President and party through the east gate to the 
White House ; during this halt every effort will be made to 
have the column closed. 



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' VI. REVIEW OF THE MILITARY AND CIVIC GRAND 

DIVISIONS. 

The parade will be reviewed by the President from a stand 
on the south side of Pennsylvania avenue opposite the White 
House. 

The guide will be left throughout the entire march and, 
for the Military Grand Division, salutes will be rendered ac- 
cording to the recjuirements of the drill regulations of the 
respective arms ; for the Civic Grand Division as described 
in paragraph XII. 

The route of the column will be west on Pennsylvania 
avenue to 19th street, where it will be dismissed. 

VII. DISMISSAL. 

The parade will be reviewed by the Grand Marshal at 18th 
street on south side of Pennsylvania avenue and dismissed 
under his supervision at 19th street. Organizations quar- 
tered on south side of and south of Pennsylvania avenue will 
move south through 19th street, east through E, D or C 
streets, and proceed by the most direct route to their respec- 
tive quarters. Organizations quartered on north side of and 
north of Pennsylvania avenue will move north through 19th 
street to K street and thence b}^ the most direct route to their 
respective quarters, except that no organizations marching- 
west will turn south until beyond 14th street northwest. To 
avoid congestion in their rear and its extension back through 
the column, organizations dismissed will not change their 
formations. 

No organization zvill be permitted to fall out from the 
column until regularly dismissed. Commanding officers of 
all organizations will make ample use of their staff officers 
to commimicate with the organizations in their respective 
commands, and to assist in keeping them closed up and mov- 
ing fhrongh the entire line of march, until they have reached 
their quarters. 

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VIII. FORMATION. 

All mounted escorts, and the mounted staffs of all mar- 
shals where the numbers permit, will form in platoons of 
twelve files front. 

Military organizations will march in close column of sui-- 
divisions in double rank with not less than sixteen nor more 
than twenty files front. Companies will be ecjualized before 
moving to the place of assembly. 

Civic organizations will march in companies of single rank 
with not less than twenty files front, and at ten paces dis- 
tance. 

During the entire march, no organisation, imlitarv or 
civic, will execnte any change of formation or perform any 
exhibition movements, and to avoid wavering in the column; 
every commanding officer zvill march directly in the middle 
of the street as defined by pennant markers placed one pair 
to each block {particidarly at all turning points) , covered by 
his center file as nearly as the guide to the left will permit. 

Bands. 

IX. The march will be in quick time, the length of step 
thirty inches, and the cadence one hundred and twenty steps 
per minute, as prescribed in the drill regulations. 

Drum-majors will use their batons or staffs only as pre- 
scribed in drill regulations, and will not throw them in the 
air. 

The 4th Band, Artillery Corps U. S. Army, whose posi- 
tion is at the head of the column, is the only band which will 
play ''Hail to the Chief" at any time, and "Maryland, my 
Maryland" is reserved for the leading band of the Maryland 
National Guard. 

Bands marching in close proximity will alternate in 
playing. 

In each division, the band of the leading regiment will be- 



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gin playing at 1st street west, of the next regiment at 2d 
street west, of the third regiment at 3d street west, and so 
on in succession to 6th street west; the object being to dis- 
tribute uniformly along the avenue the music of the bands 
and drum corps. 

In passing the President's stand all bands will play, march- 
ing in quick time (120 steps per minute). 

CARRIAGES. 

X, No carriages will be allowed in the parade except 
those occupied by the Presidential party. 

REAR GUARD. 

XI. Major W. E. HORTON, U. S. Army, Commanding. 

Capt. J. A. Penn, U. S. Army Capt. M. J. Lenihan, U. S. Army 

Capt. P. S. Brown, U. S. Marine Corps Capt. F. J. Koester, U. S. Army 
Lieut. J. C. Fremont, U. S. Navy Capt. Andrew Parker, D. C. Militia 

Troop A, Ohio National Guard. 
Captain W. M. Scofield, Commanding. 

SALUTES. 

XII. Marshals and other commanders carrying drawn 
swords will salute as prescribed in drill regulations, the com- 
mander and his staff saluting and resuming the carry to- 
gether. 

The Chief Marshal of the Civic Grand Division and other 
Commanders not carrying drawn swords will salute the 
President by uncovering; their staffs w^ll not salute. 

All other officers, all colors and standards, non-commis- 
sioned staff officers, non-commissioned officers commanding 
subdivisions, and drum-majors will salute and resume the 
carry as prescribed in the drill regulations of their respective 



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arms. The first motion of the individual salute will be made 
at six paces from the front of the President, and the carry 
resumed at six paces beyond. 

XIII. Neither Governors of States nor Commanders of 
Grand Divisions, Divisions, or Brigades zvill leave the col- 
umn to go on the reviezving stands, but each zuill continue the 
march zi'ith his command to the place zvhere the organi::ation 
is to he dismissed. 

XIV. The insignia of Marshals and of Marshals' Aids 
will be as follows : 

Grand Marshal — White SasJi. 

Grand Marshal's Staff — Red Sash. 

Grand Marshal's Aids — White Sash. 

Marshals of Grand Divisions — White and Red Sash. 

Marshals of Divisions — Red and Blue Sash. 

Marshals of Brigades — Blue and White Sash. 

All Aids except those of the Grand Marshal — Blue Sash. 

This sash will be worn from the right shoulder to the left 
side, military officers of higher grade than brigadier general 
wearing it over their prescribed uniform sash. 



XV. ORDER OF STATES AND TERRITORIES. 



1. Delaware 

2. Pennsylvania 

3. New Jersey 

4. Georgia 

5. Connecticut 

6. Massachusetts 

7. Maryland 

8. South Carolina 

9. New Hampshire 

10. Virginia 

11. New York 

12. North Carolina 

13. Rhode Island 

14. Vermont 

15. Kentucky 

16. Tennessee 

17. Ohio 

18. Louisiana 



19. Indiana 

20. Mississippi 

21. Illinois 

22. Alabama 

23. Maine 

24. Missouri 

25. Arkansas 

26. Michigan 

27. Florida 

28. Texas 

29. Iowa 

30. Wisconsin 

31. California 

32. Minnesota 

33. Oregon 

34. Kansas 

35. West Virginia 

36. Nevada 



37. Nebraska 

38. Colorado 

39. North Dakota 

40. South Dakota 

41. Montana 

42. Washington 

43. Idaho 

44. Wyoming 

45. Utah 

46. Oklahoma 
District of Columbia 
Indian Territory 
New Mexico 
Arizona 

Alaska 
Hawaii 



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PARADE COLUMN. 
XVI. The column will move in the following" order : 

Platoon of Mounted Police. 

Major Richard Sylvester, Commanding". 

Fourth Band, .Artillery Corps, U. S. Army. 

Major General J. FRAXKLIX BELL, U. S. Army, Grand Marshal. 

Brigadier General John A. Johnston, Chief of Staff. 

Staff. 

!\Iajor S. D. Sturgis, General Staff, U. S. Army, Adjutant General. 
Colonel M. L. Weaver, U. S. Army, Chief of Aids. 

Special x\ids, 

Captain F. W. Sladen, General Staff, U. S. Army. 

Captain M. F. Davis, General Staff, U. S. Army. 

Captain Johnson Hagood, General Staff, U. S. Army. 

Brig. Gen. J. B. Aleshire, U.S.A. Pay Inspector G.W. Simpson, U.S.X^. 

Lieut. Col. F. J. Moses, U.S.A. Lieut. Col. Chas. McClure, U.S.A. 

Major M. W. Ireland, U.S.A. Major F. O. Johnson, U.S.A. 

Major B. Winship, U.S.A. I^Iajor J. M. K. Saltzman, U.S.A. 

Lt. Comdr. R. K. Krank, U.S.X. Major C. G. Treat, U.S.A. 

Major H. T. Allen, U. S. A. Major W. E. Horton, U.S.A. 

Capt J. A. Penn, U.S.A. Capt. M. J. Lenihan, U.S.A. 

Capt. P. S. Brown, U.S.M.C. Capt. F. J. Koester, U.S.A. 

Capt. C. R. Rowland, U.S.A. Capt. B. V. Clayton, U.S.A. 

Capt. J. R. R. Hannay, U.S.A. Lieut. G. C. Sweet, U.S.X. 

Lieut. J. C. Fremont, Jr., U.S.X. Capt. J. B. Dillon, U.S.A. 
Past A. Surg. C.T. Grayson, U.S.X. ist Lieut. R. C. Moore, U.S.A. 

1st Lieut. F. P. Lahm, U.S. A, ist Lieut. B. D. Foulois, U.S.A. 

Aids. 

PERSOXAL ESCORT OF THE PRESIDENT. 

Troop A, Ohio National Guard. 

Captain W. M. Scofield, Commanding. 

THE PRESIDEXT. 
PRESIDEXTIAL PARTY IN CARRIAGES. 

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}.1ILITARY GRAXD DIMSIOX. 

LiEUTKXAXT Gkneral J. C. BATES, U. S. Akmv. Chief Marshal. 
Lieut. Colonel Bexjamix Alvord, U. S. A., Chief of Staff. 

Staff. 

Major H. C. Hodges, U. S. A., Adjutant General. 
Capt. Powell Clayton, U.S.A., Aid Capt. W. D. Connor, U.S.A., Aid 

Lieut. Thos. C. Hart, U.S.X., Aid Capt. \\'. C. Harlee, U.S.M.C, Aid 

FIRST DIVrSIOX. 

^Lajor Gexeral C. F. HUMPHREY, U. S. A., Marshal. 

Major Daxiel Bot:(;htox, U. S. A., Chief of Staff. 

.Maj. D. S. Stanley, U.S.A.,A.G. Maj. E. A. ^.lillar, U.S.A..A.A.G. 

Capt. J. W. Furlong, U.S.A., Aid Capt. E. H. Humphrey, U.S.A., Aid 

First Brigade. 
Brigadier Gexeral W. W. W'OTHERSPOOX, U. S. A., Marshal. 

Staff. 

^lajor H. D. Todd, Chief of Staff'. 

Capt. F. S. Cocheu, U.S.A., A.G. Capt. Fox Conner. U.S.A., Aid 

Capt. T. E. ^lerrill, U.S.A., Aid. 

Band. 
Corps of Cadets, U. S. ^lilitary Academy, \\'est Point, X. Y. 

Lieutenant Colonel F. \\'. Sibley, U. S. Army, Commanding. 

Brigade U. S. Midshipmen, U. S. Xaval Academy, 

AnnaDolis, Md. 
J. 

Lieutenant Commander D. E. Dismukes^ U. S. Xavy, Commanding 

Cadet Company, U. S. Revenue Cutter Ser\ice. 
Lieutenant R. W. Demfwolf, IJ. S. R. C. S., Commanding. 

Secoxd Brigade. 
CoLOXEL JOSEPH GARRARD, U. S. Akmv. Marshal. 

Staff. 

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Band. 

Provisional Regiment, U. S. Engineers and Coast Artillery, 

U. S. Army. 
Colonel W. H. Coffin, U. S. Army, Commanding. 

Second Battalion, 3d U. S. Field Artillery. 
Major C. G. Treat, U. S. Army, Commanding. 

First Squadron, 15th U. S. Cavalry. 
Major Frederick S. Foltz, U. S. A., Commanding. 

Company A, U. S. Hospital Corps. 
Captain Charles R. Reynolds, U. S. A., Commanding. 

Third Brigade. 

Cuban Army of Pacification. 

Colonel C. D. Cowles, U. S. Army, Commanding. 

Captain A. Mitchell, U. S. Army, Adjutant General. 

Staff. 
Capt. E. T. Hartman, U.S.x\.,Q.M. Capt. H. O. Williams, U.S.A.,C.S. 

Band. 

Eleventh U. S. Infantry. 

(Organized in 1861. Campaigns of Army of Potomac; Spanish-Ameri- 
can War ; Porto Rico ; Philippine Insurrection ; Indian Frontier ; 
San Francisco Earthquake Relief Work; Cuban Pacification.) 

Major R. T. Yeatman, U. S. A., Commanding. 

Band. 

Fifth U. S. Infantry. 

(Organized 1798. iii years old. Campaigns War 1812; Black Hawk 
and Seminole Indian Wars ; Mexican and Civil W ars ; Frontier 
Indian Wars ; Service in Cuba ; Philippine Insurrection ; Cuban 
Pacification.) 

Major W. O. Clark, U. S. A., Commanding. 

First Battalion, 2d U. S. Field Artillery. 

(Campaigns, Philippine Insurrection; Cuban Pacification.) 

Major John Conklin, U. S. A., Commanding. 



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Band. 

Eleventh U. S. Cavalry. 

Colonel James Parker, U. S. A., Commanding. 

(Campaigns, Philippine Insurrection; Cuban Pacification. 

Fourth Brigade. 

U. S. Marines and Naval Fleet Brigade. 

Rear Admiral W. P. POTTER, U. S. Navy, Marshal 

Staff. 

Lieutenant Commander R. McLean, U. S. N., Adjutant. 
Paymaster S. McGowan, U. S. N., Commissary. 

Surgeon L. W. Curtis, U. S. N., Surgeon. 

Lieutenant D. A. Weaver, U. S. N., Signal Officer. 

Lieutenant Commander L. C. Palmer, U. S. N., Quartermaster. 

Ensign B. L. Canaga, U. S. N., Aid. 

Provisional Regiment U. S. Marines. 
Lieutenant Colonel James E. Mahoney, U. S. M. C, Commanding. 

First Division, U. S. Seamen. 

Captain F, F. Fletcher, U. S. Navy, Commanding. 

Staff. 

Lieutenant R. A. Dawes, U. S. N., Adjutant. 

Assistant Paymaster F. E. McMillan, Commissary. 

Assistant Surgeon, J. Flint, Surgeon. 

Midshipman R. T. Hanson, U. S. N. A., Aid. 

First Battalion, U. S. S. "Connecticut." 
Lieutenant Y. Sterling, U. S. N., Commanding. 

Second Battalion, U. S. S. "Vermont." 
Lieutenant L. M. Overstreet, U. S. N., Commanding. 

Third Battalion, U. S. S. "Georgia." 
Lieutenant P. Washington, U. S. N., Commanding. 

Fourth Battalion, U. S. S. "Louisiana." 
Lieutenant Commander W. D. MacDougall, U. S. N., Commanding. 



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Second Division, U. S. Seamen. 

Captain F. E. Beatty, U. S. Navy, Commanding". 
Midshipman R. A. Theobold. U. S. X. A., Adjutant. 
Paymaster F. D. Insley, U. S. N., Commissary. 
P. A. Surgeon F. M. Bogan, U. S. N., Surgeon. 
Midshipman P. N. L. Bellinger, U. S. N. A., Aid. 

First Battalion, U. S. S. "Wisconsin." 

Lieutenant Commander G. E. Gelm, U. S. N., Commanding. 

Second Battalion, U. S. S. "Illinois." 
Lieutenant Commander H. A. Pearson, U. S. N., Commanding. 

Third Battalion, U. S. S. "Kearsarge." 
Commander H. Hall, U. S. N., Commanding. 

Fonrth Battalion, U. S. S. "Kentnckv." 
Lieutenant Commander IL A. Wiley, U. S. N., Commanding. 

Fifth Brigade. 

District of Columbia National Guard. 

Brigadier General GEORGE H. HARRIES, Marshal 

Lieutenant Colonel S.- E. Smiley, U. S. A., Adjutant General. 

Staff. 

Major George Henderson Major Henry H. Parmenter 

Major Edwin H. Neumeyer Major Alfred P. Robbins 

Major James E. Bell I\Iajor Wm. S. Hodges 

Aids. 

Captain Edward F. Riggs Captain C. Fred Cook 

Captain Andrew Parker 

Band. 

Second Infantry. 
Colonel M. Emmet Urell, Commanding. 

First Infantry. 
Colonel Charles H. Ourand, Commanding. 

Field Music. 

First Separate Battalion Infantry. 
Major Arthur Brooks, Commanding. 

Signal Corps. 
First Lieutenant C. ]\L Putnam, Commanding. 

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Naval Battalion. 

Commander S. W. Strattox. Commanding. 

First Battery Field Artillerw 
Captain Charles J. Fox, Commanding. 

Ambulance Corps. 

First Lieutenant W'arrex D. Fales, Commanding. 

SECOND DIVISION. 

GovERXOR SniEON S. PENNEWILL, of Delaware. Marsha!. 
Brigadier General I. P. Wickersham^ Chief of Staff. 

Staff. 

Brig. Gen. T. C. du Pont Brig. Gen. A. R. Benson 

Colonel J. E. Smith Colonel E. Mitchell 

Colonel \V. R. jMessick Colonel \V. D. Denney 

Colonel G. W. Sparks Colonel J. G. Townsend 

Colonel A. B. Conner Colonel G. A. Elliott 

Colonel Thomas Curry Lieut. Col. H. G. Cavenaugh. U.S.A. 

Lieut. Col. \\\ E. Stover Major E. G. Bradford, Jr. 

^lajor Wm. Marshall, Jr. Major W. G. Ramsay 

Major A. R. Hart Major C. A. Short 

Escort. 

First Delaware Infantry. 

Colonel Theodore Towxsexd, Commanding. 

First Brigade. 

GovERXOR EDWIN S. STUART, of Pexxsylvaxia, Marshal. 
Brigadier General Thomas J. Stewart, Adjutant General. 

Staff. 

Col. E. H. Ripple, A.A.G. Col. F. G. Sweney, Inspector Gen. 

Col. Edward :Morrell, J.A.Gen. Col. Thomas Potter, Q. M. Gen. 

Col. A. J. Logan, Com. Gen. Lieut. Col. D. B. Shepp,A.Q.M.Gen. 

Lieut. Col. H. L. Halderman, A. C. Gen Col. J. K. Weaver, Surg. Gen. 
Col. F. K. Patterson, Inspector G.R.P. Col. S. Potter, Chief of Ordnance 

Aids. 

Lieutenant Colonels James Elverson, Jr., H. C. Trexler. J. M. Reid, 
N. A. Flood, L. T. Brown, \\". T. Bradley, James Archbald, Jr., 
L. E. Beitler, F. T. Pusey, C. A. Rook, J. W. Hutchins. J. R. Wig- 
gins, O. S. Hershman. 

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PENNSYLVANIA. 

Provisional Brigade, National Guard of Pennsylvania. 

Brigadier General C. B. Dougherty^ Commanding. 

Staff of Third Pa. Brigade. 

Band. 

First Provisional Regiment (First Brigade). 
Colonel J. B. Coryell, 6th Pa. Infantry, Commanding. 

Band. 

Second Provisional Regiment (Second Brigade). 
Colonel F. I. Rutledge, i8th Pa. Infantry, Commanding. 

Band. 

Third Provisional Regiment (Third Brigade). 
Colonel C. M. Clement, 12th Pa. Infantry, Commanding. 

NEW JERSEY. 

First Troop of Cavalry. 
Captain Wm. A. Bryant, Commanding. 

GEORGIA. 

Provisional Battalion, Companies K, M, 5th Regiment. 
Captain Claude C. Smith, Commanding. 

Company F, 3d Battalion Infantry, N. G., Ga. 
Captain J. C. Reese, Commanding. 

Troop L, 2d Squadron Cavalry. 
Captain W. T. B. Wilson, Commanding. 

Troop K, 2d Squadron Cavalry, Georgia Hussars. 
Captain J. C. Dempsey, Commanding. 

CONNECTICUT. 

Third Company, Coast Artillery Corps. 
Captain J. A. Hagberg, Commanding. 

Second Brigade. 

Governor EBEN S. DRAPER, of Massachusetts, Marshal. 

Brigadier General W. H. Brigham, Adjutant General, Chief of Staff. 

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Staff. 
Brig. Gen. J. G. White, Com. Gen. Brig. Gen. W. C. Rogers, J. A. Gen. 

Lieut. Col. Edward Glines, D.Q.M.G. Major W. L. Sanborn, A.G. 

Major M. L. Cobb, A.G. 

Aids. 

Col. E. H. Eldridge, Lieut. Col. E. W. M. Bailey, Majors Ira, Vaughn, 
P. S. Sears, Guy Murchie, Talbot Aldrich, Captain E. L. Logan. 



MASSACHUSETTS. 

Provisional Brigade, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. 

Colonel William H. Oakes, Commanding. 

Staff. 

Captain E. B. Pratt, A. A. G. Captain P. J. McNamara, Q. M. 

Captain J. D. Nichols, C. S. 

Band. 

Fifth Regiment Infantry. 
Colonel W. H. Oakes, Commanding. 

Band. 

Coast Artillery Corps. 
Colonel C. P. Nutter, Commanding. 

First Provisional Regiment Infantry. 
Colonel E. L. Sweetser, Commanding. 

Band. 

Second Provisional Regiment Infantry 
Lieutenant Colonel J. E. Spencer, Commanding. 

Troop D, 1st Squadron Cavalry, dismounted. 
Captain C. A. Schmitz, Commanding. 

Ambulance Section. 
Captain Malcom Seymour. 

Third Brigade. 

Governor AUSTIN L. CROTHERS, of Maryland, Marshal. 

Major General Henry M. Warfield, Adjutant General. 

Staff. 
H. M. Hutton, A. A. Gen. G. F. Randolph, Q. M. Gen. 

C. A. Webb, Chief of Ordnance. A. D. McConachie, Sur. Gen. 

T. C. Linthicum, J. A. Gen. 

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Aids. 

Colonels W. W. Cater, J. H. Joyce, C. H. Coniey, John Keating, C. W. 

Field, C. T. Leviness, Jr., S. L. Jenkins, I. M. Parr. 

MARYLAND. 

First Brigade, Maryland National Guard. 

Brigadier General Lawrason Rtggs, Commanding. 
Staff. 
Colonel C D. Gaither, A.G. Major Alexius McGlannan, Chief Surg. 

Major J. W. Shirley, C. Q. M. Major S. J. Fort, Q. O. and I. S. A. P. 

Band. 

First Infantr}^ 
Colonel Charles A. Little, Commanding. 

Band. 

Fourth Infantry. 
Colonel Charles F. Macklin, Commanding. 

Band. 

Fifth Infantry. 
Colonel C. B. Clotworthy, Commanding. 

First Separate Company. 
Captain W. R. Spencer, Commanding. 

First Separate Company Coast Artillery. 
Captain S. B. Austin, Commanding. 

Band. 

Naval Brigade. 
Commander F. H. Wagner, Commanding. 

Troop A. 

Captain C. L. Rogers, Commanding. 

SOUTH CAROLINA. 

First Battalion, Third Infantry, N. G., S. C. 
Lieutenant Colonel Julius E. Cogswell, Commanding. 

VIRGINIA. 

Battalion Richmond Light Infantry Blues, Va. Vols. 
Major E. W. Bowles, Commanding. 

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1st Battalion, 1st Infantry, Virginia Volunteers. 
Major HuNSDON Gary, Commanding. 

3d Battalion, 1st Infantry, Virginia Volunteers. 
Lieut. Colonel R. E. Craighill, Commanding. 

Battery C, 1st Battalion, F. A. Virginia Vols, (dismounted) 
Captain H. A. Brinkley, Commanding. 

THIRD DIVISION. 

Governor CHARLES E. HUGHES, of New York, Marshal. 
Brigadier General Nelson H. Henry, Chief of Stafif. 

Staff. 
Major G. C. Treadwell Major C. J. Wolf 

Major O. B. Bridgeman Major A. H. Dyett 

Major Elliot Bigelow Major R. L. Foster 

Captain C. A. Simmons Captain Charles Healy 

Captain W. R. Fearn Captain J. H. Ingraham 

Captain E. H. Tracy Captain L. W. Stotesbury 

Captain H. K. Brown Captain D. J. Hogan 

I St Lieut. G. B. Rich, Jr. ist Lieut. F. M. Crossett 

Commander R. P. Forshew. 

Mounted Escort. 
First Company, Signal Corps, N. G., N. Y. 

1st Lieutenant T. W. Baldwin, Commanding. 

First Brigade — Third Division. 
Colonel Daniel Appleton, 7th Regiment, N. G., N. Y., Marshal. 

NEW YORK. 

Band. 

Seventh Regiment Infantry, National Guard, X. Y. 
Colonel Daniel Appleton, Commanding. 

Band. 

Provisional Regiment Infantry, National Guard, N. Y. 
Colonel C. H. Hitchcock, Commanding. 

RHODE ISLAND. 
Rhode Island Naval Battali(Mi. 

Commanding. 

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VERMONT. 

Governor H. PROUTY, of Vermont. 

Brigadier General H. Gilmoe, Adjutant General. 

Staff. 

Surgeon General D. C. Noble Judge Advocate Gen. D. L. Morgan 

Aids. 

Colonels C. E. Nelson, J. E. Piddock, W. M. Hatch, W. D. Nutting, 

E. P. Woodbury, Major A. H. Grout. 

Second Brigade. 

Governor JUDSON HARMON, of Ohio, Marshal. 
Brigadier General C. C. Weybrecht, Chief of Staff. 

Staff. 
Colonel J. M. Reiger Major J. W. Smith 

Major Joseph Hall Major Hugh Runkle 

Major R. D. Palmer Captain W. W. Schw^aab 

Captain G. H. Wood Captain P. B. Moneypeny 

Captain F. M. Fanning 
and Escort : 

Troop B, Ohio National Guard. 
Captain R. W. Knauss, Commanding. 

OHIO. 
Band. 

8th Infantry, Ohio National Guard. 
Colonel Edward Vollrath, Commanding. 

Band. 

7th Infantry, Ohio National Guard. 
Colonel Harry D. Knox, Commanding. 

Band. 

1st Infantry, Ohio National Guard. 
Colonel Charles F. Hake, Commanding. 

LOUISIANA. 

General JARED Y. SANDERS, of Louisiana. 
Staff. 
General David Stafford General F. F. Myles 

General J. J. Thompson Colonel J. D. Corgnois 

Colonel C. H. Ellis Colonel John Saxon 

Colonel J. K. Ridgely Colonel S. L. Powlett 

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Colonel J. F. Watson Colonel P. Powenthal 
Colonel R. E. Demontluzin Colonel T. W. Dantziger 
Colonel S. T. Woodring Major John Summer lin 
Major Lynn Dinkins Major A. W. Berdon 
Major J. Marks Major Lanier Leneve 
Major C. Roussel Major Clarence Murphy- 
Major C. G. Lebarre Major C. S. Tift 

]^Iajor Peter Fabacher 

INDIANA. 

Company B, 1st Infantry, Indiana National Guard. 
Captain B. E. Wimer, Commanding. 

MISSISSIPPI. 

GovERxoR E. F. NOEL, of Mississippi. 
Staff. 

Maj. Gen. S. R. Keesler Brig. Gen. Arthur Fridge 

Colonel E. H. Woods Colonel E. N. Scudder 

Colonel G. L. Donald Major W. M. Wood 

Major C. J. vSeutter Major Carl Williams 

Major J. D. Sharbrough Major C. G. Nichols 

ILLINOIS. 

Governor CHARLES S. DENEEN, of Illinois. 
Major General T, W. Scott^ Adjutant General. 

Staff. 
Col. Chauncey Dewey, Inspector Gen. Col. E. R. Bliss, Judge Advo. Gen. 

Aids. 
Colonel Randolph Smith Colonel B. A. Eckart 

Colonel J. R. Thompson Colonel R. C. Copley 

Captain J. H. Lewman Captain Abel Davis 

Lieut. O. T. McClurg Lieut. A. O. Booth 

MAINE. 

Co. A, 1st Infantry, N. G. S. M. (Portland Light Infantry). 
Captain Frank E. Cummin.s, Commanding. 

Co. M, 1st Infantry, N. G. S. M. (Cleaves Rifles). 
Captain Harry L. Lowell^ Commanding. 

MISSOURI. 

Governor HERBERT S. HADLEY, of :\Iissouri. 
Brigadier General F. M. Rumbold, Adjutant General. 

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Staff. 
Colonels M. Shoenberg, E. L. Preetoritis, M. J. Collins, L. T. Hay, J. A. 
Laird, W. I. Dififenclerfer, C. D. Mathews, C. W. Thomas, G. H. 
Robinson, F. P. Clements, P. E. Mullen, F. W. Karling, C. H. Has- 
kell, C. C. Wolff, C. G. Buffum, L. W. Kelley, L. C. Dyer. 

MINNESOTA. 

Company B, 1st Infantry, M. N. G. 
Captain E. D. Luce, Commanding. 

IDAHO. 

Governor J. H. BRADY, of Idaho. 
Staff. 

NEW MEXICO. 

Military Staff of Governor. 

Brig. Gen. R. A. Ford, Adjutant General. 

Colonel E. C. Offut Captain W. C. Porterfield 

Captain L. W. Ilfeld 

INDEPENDENT MILITARY ORGANIZATIONS. 

Band. 

Worcester Continentals, of Worcester, Mass. 
Lieut. Colonel W. A. Lytle, Commanding. 

Washington Light Infantry, of Pittsburg, Pa. 
Captain William Klein, Commanding. 

MiHtary Cadet Brigade. 
Drum Corps. 

Grove City College Battalion of Cadets. 

First Lieut. W. A. Castle, U. S. Army, Commanding. 

Band. 

Georgia Military Academy. 
Colonel J. Q. Nash, Commanding. 

Donald Eraser Military Academy, Georgia. 
Major J. M. Fray, Commanding. 

Band. 

St. John's College Cadet Corps, Maryland. 
Cadet Major Edwin Warfield, Jr., Commanding. 

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Maryland Agricultural College Corps of Cadets. 

Captain Edgar T. Couley, U. S. Army, Commanding. 

Band. 

Virginia Military Institute Corps of Cadets. 
Captain M. M. Mills, U. S. Army, Commanding. 

Band. 

St. John's School Military Cadets, New York. 
Colonel Wm. Verbeck, Commanding. 

Miami Military Institute Company of Cadets, Ohio. 
Cadet Major L. F. Hobart, Jr., Commanding. 

Shepherd College Cadet Corps, W. Va. 

Captain J. G. Knutti^ W. Va. N. G., Commanding. 
Philippine Constabulary Band. 

Washington High School Cadets, D. C. 
Colonel Burton R. Ross, Commanding, 

Washington High School Cadets (Separate Battalion), 

Major Clyde McDuffie, Commanding. 

Band. 

Gray Invincibles, of Philadelphia, Pa. 
Captain S. B. Hart, Commanding. 



CIVIC GRAND DIVISION. 

Marshal's Escort, Americus Club of Pittsburg, Pa. 
Major H. W. McIntosh, Commanding. 

THOMAS P. MORGAN, Chief Marshal. 

W. T. Galliher, Chief of Staff. 

L. S. Brown, Adjutant General. 

Walter H. Klopfer, Assistant Adjutant General. 

Alan O. Clephane, Judge Advocate General. 

Chas. H. L. Johnston, Inspector General. 

James L. Marshall, Quartermaster General. 

William F. Gude, Commissary General. 

Chas. F. Cummins, Chief Aid. 



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Aids. 
(Escort of Civic Grand Division.) 

Citizens' Taft Club, of Cincinnati, Ohio. 
RoBT. B. Reynolds, Commanding. 

Conkling Unconditionals, ofUtica, N. Y. 
Major Arthur W. Pickard, Commanding. 

Sherman Scouts, of Utica, N. Y. 

Capt. Frank S. Judson, Commanding. 

FIRST DIVISION. 

JOHN F. O'NEIL, Marshal. 

Frank C. Roach, Adjutant General. 

Staff. 

Aids. 

First Brigade — First Division. 

Colonel JOSEPH C. BONNER, Marshal 
Colonel Myron C. Cox, Adjutant General. 

Staff. 
Aids. 

Young Men's Blaine Republican Club, of Cincinnati, Ohio. 
John Proctor, Commanding. 

Republican Glee Club, of Columbus, Ohio. 

Colonel George D. Freeman, Commanding. 

Uniform Rank, Knights of the Maccabees, 

of Cleveland, Ohio. 

Major General Wm. H. Sletzer, Commanding. 

Buckeye Republican Club, of Columbus, Ohio. 

Major Wm. H. Duffy, Commanding. 

Second Brigade — First Division. 

Hon. W. C. WITHERBEE, Marshal 

E. W. Bradford, Adjutant General. 

Staff. 

i Aids. 

Republican County Committee, of New York Citv. 
Hon. Herbert Parsons, Commanding. 

j Delegation from New Brighton, N. Y. 

: ., Hon. George Cromwell, Commanding. 

Syracuse Republican Escort. 
Major James Arthur Warner, Commanding. 

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Theatrical Republican Club, of New York City. 

, Commanding. 

Taft and Sherman Gun Squad, Batavia, N. Y. 

Wm. H. McBride, Commanding. 
Third Brigade — F'irst Division. 

Major FRANK McCOAIB, Marshal. 
Herman W. Klein. Adjutant General. 

Staff. 

Aids. 

The Young Men's Republican Tariff Club, of Pittsburg, Pa. 

Major Frank McComb, Commanding. 

Captain E. D. Frebertshauser. 

John E. Reyburn Republican Club, of Philadelphia, Pa. 
Wm. S. Vare, Commanding. 

The John Macleary Marching Club, of Philadelphia, Pa. 
Hon. John Macleary, Commanding. 

18th Ward Marching Club, of Philadelphia, Pa. 
Isaac D. Hetzell, Commanding. 

Twentieth Century Republican Club, of Philadelphia, Pa. 

Louis Hutt, Commanding. 

The Lincoln Republican Club, of New Brighton, Pa. 
Harry W. Blount, Commanding. 

Uniform Rank, Knights of the Maccabees, of Allegheny, Pa. 
Harry A. Matters, Commanding. 

Temperance Pioneer Corps, of South Bethlehem, Pa. 
Capt. Owen R. Doyle, Commanding. 

SECOND DIVISION. 

WM. H. YERKES, Marshal. 

Bernard T. Janney, Adjutant General. 

Staff. 

Aids. 

First Brigade — Second Division. 

W. HART DEXTER, Marshal. 

E. P. Hazleton, x\djutant General. 

Staff. 

Aids. 



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Union County Republican Club, of Elizabeth, N. J. 
Hamilton F. Kean, Commanding. 

Veteran Zouaves, of Elizabeth, N. J. 
Brig. Gen. J. Madison Drake, Commanding, as Escort to the foregoing 

club. 

Frelinghuysen Lancers Association, of Newark, N. J. 
Major Wm. L. Blanchard, Commanding. 

Garrett Hobart Association, of Newark, N. J. 
Captain Wm. Weigel, Commanding. 

National Volunteer Emergency Service, of Hoboken, N. J. 
Wolfgang Goetz, M. D., Commanding. 

Residents of Boonton, N. J. 
Chas. F. Hopkins, Commanding. 

Second Brigade — Second Division. 

CHAS. T. LINDSEY, Marshal. 

Theodore Schondau, Adjutant General. 

Staff. 

Aids. 

Original Roosevelt Club, of St. Paul, Minn. 
George K. Sheppard, Commanding. 

Minneapolis Republican Flambeau Club, Minneapolis, Minn. 
J. G. Malmstedt, Commanding. 

Uncle Sam's Club, of Buffalo, N. Y. 

Colonel Wm. J. Henk, Commanding. 

Roosevelt Neighbors, of Nassau County. 
Chas. F. Lewis, Commanding. 

Hose Company of Nassau, Freeport, N. Y. 
Foreman Archer B. Wallace, Commanding. 

Active Hook and Ladder Company, of Cobleskill, N. Y. 
Howard Moore, Commanding. 

Phelps Guards, of Paterson, N. J. 
Major Philip C. Crew, Commanding. 

Taft Phalanx, of Chicago. 
Lewis J. Behan, Commanding. 

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United German Societies of the District of Columbia. 
Martin Wiegand, Commanding. 

Third Brigade — Second Division. 

CHAS. P. SWETT, Marshal. 

Thad B. Sargent, Adjutant General. 

Staff. 

Aids. 

Taft Club, of Georgia. 
Warren Edwards, Commanding. 

Taft and Sherman Club, of Phoebus, Va. 
Col. G. P. Austin, Commanding. 

National Junior Republic, of Annapolis Junction, Md. 
Geo. G. Gill, Commanding. 

Uniform Ranks, Knights of Pythias, of Baltimore, Md. 
Capt. W. A. McCleary, Commanding. 

Boys of Woodcraft, of Washington, D. C. 
Major Geo. Sunday, Commanding. 

United Boys' Brigade of x\merica. 
Colonel J. Jarvis Butler, Commanding. 

Charleroi Cadets, Boys' Brigade, Charleroi, Pa. 
, Commanding. 

Bradley Marching Club, of Louisville, Ky. 
M. H. Thatcher, Commanding. 

Full Blood Creek Indians. 
Chief Eufaula Harjo, Commanding. 

THIRD DIVISION. 

E. D. WILLI STON, Marshal. 
Hon. W. T. Vernon, Chief of Staff. 

Staff. 
Aids. 

First Brigade. 

Colonel P. H. CARSON, Marshal. 

Geo. W. Robinson, Chief of Staff. 

Staff. 



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Blaine Invincible Club. 
Knights of St. John. 

Second Brigade. 

Hon. J. MILTON TURNER, Marshal. 

A. W. G. Sango, Chief of Staff. 

Staff. 

Jenkins Orphanage Band. 

Robt. H. Keys Marching Club. 

Republican Club, Richmond. 

Third Brigade. 

Rev. W. L. TAYLOR, Marshal. 
, Chief of Staff. 

Wibecan Republican Club, of Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Israel W. Durham Club, of Philadelphia, Pa. 

Drew's B. B. B. Regiment. 



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S^port nf (Enmmttlpp on 3Ftnattr^ 



Milton E. Ailes, Chainnan 

Charles H. Boynton, Vice-Chainnan 

]. Edward Bates, Vice-Chairman 

George O. Vass, Secretary 



Mr. Edward J. Stellwagen, 

Chairman of the Inaugural Committee, 
Washington, D. C. 



Dear Sir: 

I have the honor to submit herewith the report of the Com- 
mittee on Finance. It was the first duty of this Committee 
to raise the Inaugural Guarantee Fund. Subscription books 
for this purpose were opened December 11, 1908. Subscrip- 
tions were made payable one half on December 15, 1908, 
and the remainder January 15, 1909. The fund raised was 
the largest in the history of inaugural functions and aggre- 
gated $86,720. All subscriptions were paid in full. The 
number of subscribers was 288, as shown by accompanying 
list. 

Under the rules governing the work of the Committee on 
Finance, it was its duty to supervise the sale of ball, supper 
and concert tickets. Ball tickets were placed on sale at vari- 



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oiis central points throughout the city as early as February 
10, 1909. The following banks, hotels, and business houses 
rendered valuable service in the distribution and sale of these 
tickets : 



American National Bank 

Columbia National Bank 

Commercial National Bank 

Crane, Parris & Co. 

Lincoln National Bank 

Merchants and Mechanics Savings Bank 

National Metropolitan Bank 

National Capital Bank 

National Bank of Washington 

Riggs National Bank 

Second National Bank 

American Security & Trust Co. 

Union Trust Co. 

United States Trust Co. 

Washington Loan & Trust Co. 

S. Kann, Sons & Co. 

Woodward & Lothrop 

Berry & Whitmore 

Gait & Bro. 

Harris & Shafer Co. 

R. Harris & Co. 

Shaw & Brown Co. 



Arlington Hotel 
Cairo Hotel 
Cochran Hotel 
Ebbitt House 
Hamilton Hotel 
Metropolitan Hotel 
New Willard Hotel 
National Hotel 
The Portland 
Raleigh Hotel 
Riggs House 
The Shoreham 
St. James Hotel 
Cosmos Club 
Metropolitan Club 

E. F. Droop & Sons 
Sanders & Stayman 
T. Arthur Smith 

F. G. Smith Piano Co. 
Thompson's Pharmacy 
D. J. Kaufman 
Henry J. Goodman 



Concert tickets were placed on sale at the offices of San- 
ders & Stayman, T. Arthur Smith, E. F. Droop & Sons and 
the F. G. Smith Piano Company. 

The receipts under the jurisdiction of the Finance Com- 
mittee were as follows : 

Inaugural Guarantee Fund $86,720.00 

Ball Tickets 44,840.00 

Supper Tickets 1,603.50 

Concert Tickets 14,243.50 

Souvenirs 282.40 

Cash admission to ball 5.00 

Cash admissions to supper 18.00 

Total $147,712.40 



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In addition to the above receipts there have been turned 
over to the Treasurer the following sums from the 

Committee on Reviewing Stands $32,237.95 

Committee on Programs 1,251.17 

Total $33^89:22 

The subject of expenditures does not fall under the super- 
vision of the Finance Committee, appropriations being gov- 
erned by the Inaugural Committee itself. It is presumed, 
therefore, that the Treasurer of the Committee will make a 
report covering disbursements. It having been apparent, how- 
ever, that receipts exceeded expenditures by about $6,000, 
the Inaugural Committee, on March 18, 1909, authorized 
the return of the Inaugural Guarantee Fund. Checks cover- 
ing this amount were mailed to subscribers on March 19, 

1909. 

The thanks of the Finance Committee are due to its Vice- 
Chairman, Mr. Chas. H. Boynton, for valuable services ren- 
dered in connection with the Inaugural Guarantee Fund ; to 
its Vice-Chairman, Mr. J- E. Bates, Public Accountant, for 
skillful and invaluable work in the distribution and sale of 
ball, supper and concert tickets and in the handling of 
accounts, this being Mr. Bates' fourth engagement in Inau- 
gural work of this kind ; to the Secretary of the Committee, 
Mr. George O. Vass ; to the competent force of ticket sellers 
and ticket takers organized by Mr. Avon Nevius and Mr, 
Boyd Taylor; and to Mr. William P. Van Wickle, Vice- 
President of the F. G. Smith Piano Company, who courte- 
ously loaned the Committee the use of a large automobile 
during the entire day and evening of March 4, 1909. The 
Committee takes pleasure in acknowledging the valuable 
services of the above, to whom is due much of the credit for 
accomplishing satisfactory results more or less difficult to 
attain in the face of bad weather conditions. 
Very respectfully yours, 

Milton E. Ailes, 
Chairman Committee on Finance. 

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JInaugural (^nnmnUt 3F«nb 

Dr. George N. Acker, 913 i6th St $50 

Byron S. Adams, 512 nth St 100 

C. F. Adams, Treasury Department 25 

Milton E. Ailes, Riggs' National Bank 1,000 

American Ice Company, 1437 Penna. Ave 250 

Larz Anderson, 2118 Mass. Ave _ 500 

R. P. Andrews Paper Co., 627-29 Louisiana Ave.- 200 

Thos. H. Anderson, 1531 New Hampshire Ave 50 

Arlington Bottling Co., 27th and K Sts., N. W.__ 300 

Arms and Drury, 1311 G St., N. W 1,000 

James Baird, care of Fuller Construction Co., 

Munsey Building 200 

George F, Baker, First National Bank, New York, 

through Mr. Boynton 1,000 

Becker's Leather Goods Co., 1324-26 F St., N. W.-_ 200 

Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, care of Chas. J. Bell_= 500 

Browning and Baines, Inc., 316 Penna. Ave., N. W. 100 

N. L. Burchell, 1325 F St., N. W.-_ 100 

James A. Cahill, 1308 F St., N. W 100 

Jno. Callahan, care of Norfolk and Washington 

Steamboat Co. 100 

Andrew Carnegie, Home Tr. Co., Hoboken, N. J., 

through Mr. Boynton 1,000 

David S. Carll, 1639 Park Road 50 

Capital Traction Co., 36th & M Sts., N. W 1,000 

S. B. Chapin, New York, care of Hibbs and Co., 

City 1,000 

Chesapeake & Potomac Tel. Co., 722 12th St 500 

Columbia Typographical Union, No. loi, 423 G 

St., N. W 100 

Consolidated Coal Co., Foot 30th St 250 

Hon. L. A. Coolidge, Treasury Dept. ^ 25 

James W. Corcoran, 1415 G St., N. W 100 

G. G. Cornwell and Son, 1412 Penna Ave 500 

W. V. Cox, 2d National Bank 100 

Charles H. Cragin, 321 4^ St., N. W 25 

H. D. Crampton, care of Capital Traction Co., 

36th and M Sts. 50 

Sidney Bieber, 630 G St., S. E 100 

Gist Blair, Cocoran Building 250 

Blair and Thom, Colorado Building 250 

George Blumental, of New York, through Chas. H. 

Boynton 1,000 

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W. J. Boardman, 1801 P St., N. W 500 

Scott C. Bone, care of Washington Herald 100 

A. Brand, 412 Munsey Building 20 

Frank S. Bright, Colorado Building 100 

Alexander Britton, 1419 F St., N. VV 200 

Aldis B. Brown, 1419 F St., N. W 200 

Chapin Brown, 323 John Marshall Place 100 

S. Thomas Brown, 3072 M St., N. W 100 

Charles J. Bell, Amer, Sec. & Tr. Co 1,000 

Maj. James E. Bell, P. O. Station A 25 

J. E. Berry, 1354 C St., N. W 25 

Berry and Whitmore Co., nth & F Sts 100 

C. K. Berryman, care of Evening Star 50 

Nathan Bickford, 1425 New York Ave 10 

Cranford Paving Co., 2620 E St., N. W. 100 

Judge Wm. H. DeLacy, Juvenile Court 20 

John T. Devine, The Shoreham 500 

R. A. Dore, 1617 L St., N. W 50 

Wm. F. Downey, 1622 L St., N. W 100 

E. F. Droop and Sons Co., 925 Penna. Ave 250 

Abner Drury Brewing Co., 25th & F Sts., N. W.__ 500 

H. Rozier Dulany, 1320 F St., N. W 500 

Dulin and Martin Co., 1215 F St., N. W 100 

G. Thomas Dunlop, Fendall Building 200 

Duparquet, Huot & Moneuse Co., 1420 Penna. Ave. 100 

Earnshaw and Leary, 119-23 ist St., S. W 50 

The Ebbitt House, 14th & F Sts., N. W 500 

John Joy Edson, Wash. Loan & Tr. Co 1,000 

Eiseman Bros., 7th and E Sts., N. W 200 

Wm. Corcoran Eustis, Lafayette Square 250 

B. Baker Evans, 631 Penna. Ave 25 

George W. Evans, Interior Dept. 25 

John O. Evans, 1424 New York Ave 100 

The Evening Star Newspaper Co., nth St. and 

Penna. Ave. 1,000 

W. W. Finley, 2019 Mass. Ave., N. W. 100 

Victor G. Fischer, 527 15th St., N. W 50 

Fitch, Fox and Brown, 1406 G St., N. W 100 

Henry H. Flather, Riggs' National Bank 100 

William J. Flather, Riggs' National Bank 500 

George E. Fleming, care of Union Trust Co 100 

Franklin and Co., 1203 F St., N. W. 20 

Daniel Eraser, 1626 P St., N. W 1,000 

Ford and Graham, 609 15th St., N. W So 

Percy C. Foster, 1327 F St., N. W 1 •() 

A. F. Fox, Columbia National Bank 100 

George A. Fuller Co., Munsey Building 500 

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H. W. Fuller, C. & O. Ry., i339 F St 25 

Maj. Thos. M. Gale, 738 15th St, N. W 500 

Gait and Bro, 1107 Penna. Ave 100 

E, H. Gary, of New York, through Chas. H. 

Boynton 1,000 

Georgetown Gas Light Co, 11 18 29th St 500 

Geo. Gibson, 1238 Penna. Ave., N. W 50 

G. L. Gillespie, 1533 New Hampshire Ave 50 

Charles C. Glover, Riggs' National Bank 1,000 

M. Goldenberg, 7th and K Sts 500 

Jas. E. Goodkey, 2402 G St., N. W 5 

Green Clay Goodloo, 1103 i6th St., N. W 50 

Thomas F. Graham, 2410 i8th St., N. W 100 

Bernard R. Green, care of Library of Congress 100 

James M. Green, 1336 New York Ave., N. W 500 

Gilbert H. Grosvenor, care of Nat. Geographic Soc, 

i6th and M Sts 100 

Wm. Hahn and Co., 7th and K Sts 100 

W. F. Ham, 14th and East Capitol Sts 50 

John Hays Hammond, 71 Broadway, New York, 

through Mr. Boynton 1,000 

Geo. E. Hamilton, 1751 New Hampshire Ave 500 

Walter S. Harban, 1212 Mass. Ave., N. W 500 

Gen. Geo. H. Harries, care of W. Ry. & E. Co., 

14th and East Capitol Streets 100 

R. Harris & Co., 400 7th St 25 

Harris and Shafer Co., 11 13 Penna. Ave 200 

Harris, Winthrop & Co., through W. B. Hibbs 

and Co. 1,000 

The Harvey Co., Inc., nth St. and Penna. Ave.__ 100 

Hecht and Co., 515 7th St 250 

Hon. John J. Hemphill, 319-22 Wash. Loan and 

Tr. Bldg. 100 

Hon. J. B. Henderson, i6th and Fla. Ave 500 

R. W. & J. B. Henderson, Inc., 1109 F St 100 

J. T. Hendrick, 715 14th St., N. W 1,000 

E. R. Hendley, Treasury Dept 10 

Frank C. Henry, 703 15th St., N. W 100 

A. Barton Hepburn, of New York, through Chas. 

H. Boynton 500 

John E. Herrell, 316 Penna. Ave., S. E 100 

Christian Heurich, 1307 New Hampshire Ave.,N.W. 1,000 

W. B. Hibbs, 723 15th St., N. W 1,000 

Wm. Corcoran Hill, 1502 H St., N. W 100 

James J. Hill, New York, through Chas. H. Boyn- 
ton 1,000 

W. H. Hoeke, 801 Penna. Ave 50 

James F. Hood, Amer. Sec. & Tr. Co 250 



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Hoover and Denham, Center jMarket lOO 

Wm. D. Hoover, Nat. Savings and Trust Co loo 

Lewis Hopfenmaier, loth and C Sts., N. \V loo 

Thomas S. Hopkins, Hibbs Building lOO 

Richard R. Hornor, 6th and D Sts., N. W 25 

House and Hermann, 901 7th St 100 

George Howard, 1008 i6th St., N. W 100 

Hon. Geo. F. Huff, 1600 New Hampshire Ave 1,000 

Thos. Hyde, 1537 28th St., N. W 500 

Hydraulic Press Brick Co., Colorado Bldg 25 

International Banking Corporation, 1414 F St 1,000 

Hennen Jennings, 2221 Mass. Ave 500 

James M. Johnston, 1628 S St 200 

Lewis Johnson and Co., 1319 F St., N. W 1,000 

O. H. P. Johnson, 1312 F St 100 

Gen. John A. Johnston, 2111 Mass. Ave 200 

Eldridge E. Jordan, Merchants and Mechanics 

Savings Bank 200 

A. F. Jorss, 315 13th St., N. W 100 

S. Kann, Sons and Co., 8th St. and Penna. Ave. 1,000 

D. J. Kaufman, The Man's Store 200 

Hon. Wm. P. Kellogg, The Shoreham 100 

J. Miller Kenyon, Colorado Bldg. 1,000 

Tucker and Kenyon, Colorado Bldg. 250 

Dr. Richard Kingsman, 711 East Capitol St 100 

Wm. G. Kinsman, 708 14th St., N. W 20 

Geo. W. Knox Express Co., 1417 Penna. Ave 100 

James B. Lambie, 1415 New York Ave., N. W 100 

Lansburgh Bros., 420-6 7th St., N. W 1,000 

Julius Lansburgh, 512 9th St 50 

John S. Larcombe, 808 17th St., N. W 100 

John B. Earner, 501-3 Wash. Loan & Tr. Bldg.__ 100 

Ralph W. Lee, 1406 G St., N. W 100 

Wm. P. Lipscomb & Co., 1405 F St., N. W 300 

A. Eisner nth and G Sts. N. W 500 

Adolph Loehl, 15th and G Sts., N. W 250 

A. M. Lothrop, nth and F Sts., N. W 1,000 

Daniel Loughran, 1347 E St., N. W 50 

H. B. F. Macfarland, District Bldg. ___^ 50 

J. Nota McGill, Woodley Lane 100 

F. B. McGuire, 1333 Conn. Ave 100 

James H. McKenney, 1523 Rhode Island Ave 100 

Wm. A. McKenney, Amer. Sec. & Tr. Co 50 

William H. McKnew Co., 933 Penna. Ave 100 

A. M. McLachlen, loth and G Sts 100 

Geo. X. McLanahan, Union Tr. Bldg. 100 

John R. McLean 1509 H St. 1,000 



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John H. Magruder, looo Conn. Ave. loo 

Wm. F. Mattingly, 435 7th St 50 

F. P. May and Co., 634 Penna. Ave 100 

W. K. Mendenhall, The Portner 25 

Eugene Meyer, Jr., Nev^ York, through Mr. Boyn- 

ton 1,000 

Gen. Anson Mills, 2 Dupont Circle 200 

W. E. Montgomery, 1743 Rhode Island Ave 25 

Moore and Hill, 1333 G St 100 

Moore and Schley, 80 Broadway, New York 

through Lewis Johnson & Co 1,000 

Thos. P. Morgan, 1333 F St., N. W 100 

Wm. Gerry Morgan, The Rochambeau 50 

Edward A. Moseley, Interstate Com. Com 25 

George W. Moss, 141 1 G St., N. W. 25 

W. B. Moses and Sons, nth and F Sts., N. W 1,000 

Hon. Lawrence O. Murray, Comp. of Currency 25 

Nat'l Electrical Supply Co., 1330 New York Ave.— 500 

Nat'l Capital Brewing Co., 1337 D St., S. E 500 

Nat'l Hotel, City 500 

P. J. Nee Co., 743-5 7th St 50 

Norfolk & Wash. Steamboat Co., 7th St. and 

Wharves 250 

Clarence F. Norment, Nat'l Bank of Wash 1,000 

Harry Norment, McGill Building 500 

James L. Norris, 5th and F Sts., N. W 100 

Howard S. Nyman, 1406 21st St., N. W 100 

G. W. Offutt, 3209-11 M St. 100 

Robert C. Ogden, care of Chas. H. Boynton 500 

Wm. J. Oliver, Knoxville, Tenn. 50 

Wm. B. Orme, 1623 26th St., N. W 25 

Jas. F. Oyster, 900 Penna. Ave 100 

Auiick Palmer, 1401 Belmont St 100 

Andrew Parker, Wash. Loan and Tr. Co 100 

Myron M. Parker, 1418 F St 500 

A. K. Parris, 604 14th St 100 

James L. Parsons, 616 Union Tr. Bldg. 100 

George W. Perkins, New York, through Mr. 

Boynton i,ooo 

H. C. Perkins, 1701 Conn. Ave. 500 

R. Ross Perry, Fendall Building 100 

Duncan C. Phillips, 1600 21st St., N. W 100 

M. Phillipsborn and Co., 608-14 nth St., N. W 250 

Gifford Pinchot, 1615 Rhode Island Ave 200 

Arthur G. Plant, 714 14th St., N. W 500 

D. S. Porter, 722 12th St., N. W 100 

Postal Telegraph Cable Co., 1345 Penna. Ave 500 



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Post and Flagg, 15 Broad St., New York, through 

Lewis Johnson and Co. 1,000 

Samuel J. Prescott, 814 13th St 50 

The Raleigh, 12th St. and Penna. Ave r,ooo 

E. & C. Randolph, New York, through W. B. 

Hibbs & Co. 1,000 

W. H. Rapley, New National Theatre 100 

Charles Rauscher, 1036 Conn. Ave 50 

Norman B. Roam, of New York, through Chas. 

H. Boynton 500 

Frank P. Reeside, 1003 F St., N. \V 100 

Hugh Reilly, 1334 New York Ave. 100 

B. Rich's Sons, looi F St., N. W 50 

W. F. Roberts Co., 1413 New York Ave 100 

Cuno H. Rudolph, 1332 New York Ave 250 

Albert B. Ruff, Nat. Bank of Wash 25 

George P. Sacks, 2301 ist St. N. W 100 

Saks and Co., 7th and Penna. Ave 500 

James A. Sample, Treasury Dept. 20 

Franklin T. Sanner, i8th St. and Columbia Road 100 

B. F. Saul, 7th and L Sts., N. W 200 

James H. Saville, 1420 17th St., N. W 25 

Emil G. Schafer, 424 nth St., N. W 100 

A. R. Serven, 1419 F St., N. W 25 

J. Albert Shaffer, Star Building 25 

James F. Shea, 643 Louisiana Ave 100 

N. H. Shea, 632 Penna. Ave., N. W 100 

The Shoomaker Co., 1331 E St., N. W 100 

R. D. Simms, care of Capital Traction Co 100 

J. H. Small and Sons, 14th and G Sts., N. W 500 

B. F. Smith, Fire Proof Construction Co., Pope 

Building 10 

F. G. Smith Piano Co., 1225 Penna. Ave 250 

Odell S. Smith, 631 Penna. Ave. 100 

Thos. W. Smith, ist St. & Indiana Ave., N. W.__ 100 

A. S. Solomons, 1203 K St., N. W 50 

Gen. Ellis Spear, 1003 F St 100 

O. G. Staples, Riggs House 500 

E. T. Stotesbury, 5th and Chestnut Sts., Phila., 

through Mr. Boynton 1,000 

Edward J. Stellwagen, Union Trust Co 1,000 

Louis Stern, of New York, through Chas. H. 

Boynton 500 

Frederick C. Stevens, care of Commercial National 

Bank 500 

Joseph Strasburger, 310-2 7th St., N. W 200 

Swartzell, Rheem & Hensey, 727 15th St., N. W._- 500 

Swayze, Bailey & Co., 814 F St., N. W 100 



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Robert H. Terrell, 911 G St., N. W 25 

Hugh A. Thrift, 1405 New York Ave 25 

To-Kalon Wine Co., 614 14th St 50 

Charles E. Tribby, 703 15th St. 100 

Geo. Truesdell, 1627 Lincoln Ave., N. E 500 

Underwood Typewriter Co., 1206 F St., N. W 200 

Frank A. Vanderlip, of New York, through Mr. 

Boynton 1,000 

Hon. W. T. Vernon, Reg. of the Treasury 25 

Thomas F. Walsh, Colorado Bldg 1,000 

Harry Wardman, 1333 G St., N. W 500 

B. H. Warner, 916 F St 100 

Washington Gas Light Co., 413 loth St., N. W.__ 1,000 

The Washington Herald 1,000 

The Washington Post 1,000 

Wash. Ry. and Elec. Co., 14th and E. Cap. Sts., 

N. E. 1,000 

The Washington Times 1,000 

F. P. Weller, 755 8th St., S. E. 50 

Joseph L Weller, 602 F St., N. W 50 

Western Union Telegraph Co., 1401 F St., N. W. 500 

Charles E. White, Nat. Bank of Wash. 25 

Geo. W. White, National Metropolitan Bank__ 100 

Oscar W. White, 1116 F St., N. W 100 

F. J. Whitehead, 14th & East Capitol Sts. 10 

Jerome J. Wilber, 416 Bond Bldg. 25 

Henry A. Willard, 1416 F St 100 

H. K. Willard, 1416 F St 100 

The New Willard, 14th St. and Pa. Ave 1,000 

Willard and Reed, 1416 F St loc^ 

Dr. W. H. Wilmor, 1610 I St., N. W 100 

Jesse B. Wilson, care of Lincoln Nat. Bank 50 

Levi Woodbury, 11 Iowa Cir^'-; 250 

Gen. Maxwell V. Z. Woodhull, 2033 G St., N. W._ 300 

S. W. Woodward, nth and F Sts., N. W 1,000 

F. W. Woolworth & Co., 406 7th St., N. W 25 

Hugo Worch, iiio G St., N. W 50 

A. S. Worthington, 416 5th St 100 

John W. Yerkes, 412 5th St., N. W 100 



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Theodore W. No yes. Chairman 

John Joy Edsox, Vice-Chairman 

Beale R. Howard, Secretary 

Mr. E. J. Stellwagen, 

Chairman Inaugural Committee, 

The Nezv Willard, Washington, D. C. 
Dear Sir : 

The Reception Committee was organized on the same gen- 
eral basis as in the past, its membership being divided into an 
official section and a general or non-official section. In the 
official section were the Justices of the Supreme Court of the 
United States, the Court of Appeals of the District, the 
Supreme Court of the District and the Court of Claims ; the 
Commissioners of the District of Columbia, representatives 
of the two houses of Congress; representatives of the Aimy 
and the Navy, and the officers and members of the Republi- 
can National Committee. The general section of the com- 
mittee included men of affairs in the District and distin- 
guished citizens of the States. Service on the committee was 
accepted in a gratifying spirit of co-operation. Members 
who were requested to perform special duties responded 
promptly and acted with praiseworthy zeal to the end of 
ensuring the success of the plans of extending courtesies to 
distinguished guests, entrusted by the Inaugural Committee 



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to the Reception Committee. Those members who were not 
particularly assigned attended the ball in large number and 
rendered useful services in contributing to the pleasure and 
comfort of the visitors and guests. 

Governors. 
Twenty governors announced their intention of attending 
the inauguration and provisions were made for their recep- 
tion upon arrival and the extension of courtesies to them in 
the name of the Inaugural Committee. Escorts were 
assigned to each of these governors, and acting under 
instructions from the Chairman of the Reception Committee 
they placed themselves in communication with the prospec- 
tive visitors. The escorts thus named were as follows : 

Mr. Henry P. Blair, for Governor H. B. Quinby, of N. H. 
Mr. M. M. Parker, for Governor G. H. Prouty, of Vt. 
Mr. S'. W. Woodward, for Governor E. S. Draper, of Mass. 
. Mr. B. H. Warner, for Governor A. J. Pothier, of R. I. 
Comdr. L. L. Reamey, for Governor G. L. Lilley, of Conn. 
Dr. C. W. Needham, for Governor Chas. E. Hughes, of N.Y. 
Dr. A. P. Pardon, for Governor J. Franklin Fort, of N. J. 
Mr. J. Howard Gore, for Governor S. S. Pennewill, of Del. 
Mr. John B. Larner and 

Jas. T. Du Bois, for Governor E. S. Stuart, of Penna. 
Mr. Beale R. Howard and 

Mr. Fleming Newbold, for Governor A. L. Crothers, of Md. 
Mr. W. V. Cox and 

Mr. T. F. Spangler, for Governor Judson Harmon, of Ohio 
Mr. Willis L. Moore, for Governor Charles Deneen, of 111. 
Gen. R. L. Hoxie and 
Dr. John C. Simpson, for Governor B. F. Carroll, of Iowa 

Maj. J. J. Peshine, for Governor A. E. Willson, of Ky. 
Mr. Archibald Hopkins, for Governor H. S. Hadley, of Mo. 
Mr. Thos. W. Smith, for Governor E. F. Noel, of Miss. 
Mr. W. H. Moses, for Governor Jared Sanders, of La. 
Mr. W. F. Gude and 

Mr. A. B. Browne, for Governor B. B. Comer, of Ala. 
Mr. Victor Kauffmann, for Governor J. H. Brady, of Idaho 
Mr. Thomas Grant, for Governor Geo. Curry, of N. Mex. 

Each escort was instructed to meet the governor, if pos- 
sible, at the station and escort him to his hotel. He was to 
place in the hands of the governor the ticket of admission 

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to the Senate chamber and the tickets to the inaugural 
stand, granted by the Houses of Congress, together with the 
accompanying souvenirs ; also the tickets to the White House 
reviewing stand and the invitations and tickets to the ball 
issued by the Inaugural Committee. He was also to escort 
the governor to the ball, if it was agreeable and desirable, 
and at the ball to ensure his proper presentation to the Pres- 
ident at the reception held in the balcony, and to extend such 
other courtesies to the governors and members of their fam- 
ilies and staffs as were possible in the circumstances. 

Not all of the governors who planned to come were able 
to do so. Regrets at their inability to be present were 
received from Governors Lilly, of Connecticut, Brady, of 
Idaho, and Curry, of New Mexico. Governor Crothers and 
his staff started for Washington but were unable to reach 
this city owing to the blockade of trains due to the storm. 
Otherwise the program of extending courtesies to the visit- 
ing State executives was carried out in full. The escorts 
performed the duties assigned to them with tact and dili- 
gence, extending social and personal courtesies to the gov- 
ernors in a manner highly creditable to the city as host. 

The governors of the States received more courtesies at 
this inauguration than ever before, the Inaugural Committee 
placing them on the list of invited guests at the ball, and the 
Reception Committee providing for their use in the reserved 
gallery a room adjacent and similar to those furnished the 
diplomatic corps and the Supreme Court. 

Diplomatic Corps. 

The senior ambassadors and ministers, with their ladies, 
were guests of the Inaugural Committee at the ball. In 
order to insure their proper reception and presentation to the 
President a sub-committee was organized, after consultation 
with the Department of State, consisting of Mr. William 
Phillips, Third Assistant Secretary of State, and Mr. John 
Barrett, to ensure the extension to the diplomatic corps at the 

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ball the usual and essential courtesies and to present them to 
the members of the Presidential party. This committee 
discharged this obligation most satisfactorily. 

Supreme Court. 

Messrs. A. S. Worthington, J. J. Darlington, Wm. F. 
Mattingly, George E. Hamilton and Chapin Brown were 
assigned to duty in the balcony at the ball to receive the 
members of the Supreme Court of the United States, and 
responded promptly and heartily to this assignment. 

Congress. 

A sub-committee was organized to extend courtesies at the 
ball to Senators and Representatives, consisting of Gen. 
George H. Harries, David S. Barry, Scott C. Bone, L. A. 
Coplidge, John P. Miller, Ernest G. Walker, P. V. DeGraw, 
James R. Young, William E. Curtis, H. H. Darneille, John 
E. Jones, D. N. Ransdell and Wm. E. Chandler. The activ- 
ity of these sub-committeemen ensured access to the reserved 
balcony to all members of Congress. 

Republican National Committee. 

Messrs. M. M. Parker, Sidney Bieber and Henry M. 
Camp were named as a sub-committee to receive and escort 
to the reserved gallery the members of the Republican Na- 
tional Committee. This duty was faithfully performed. 

Admissions. 

In order to prevent the overcrowding of the reserved bal- 
cony at the ball and also to enable those designated for 
admission to that point to obtain access, a sub-committee on 
admissions was formed, consisting of Messrs. John B. Sle- 
man, Jr., E. C. Brandenburg, W. C. Clephane, E. H. Droop, 
Fred D. McKenney, C. B. Rheem, Ralph W. Lee, Frank H. 
Bethell and Fleming Newbold. These gentlemen remained 

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on duty throughout the evening and rendered especially valu- 
able services, exercising tact and discriminating judgment in 
passing upon those seeking entrance to the restricted space 
where the President was holding his informal reception. 
Those who were admitted to the reserved gallery included : 

1. The guests of the Inaugural Committee, including the 
Presidential and ,Vice-Presidential parties, the Supreme 
Court, the Diplomatic Corps, the Speaker of the House and 
his daughter, the Governors of States, and a few others, 
with their escorting or receiving sub-committees of the 
Reception Committee. All guests were admitted by cards 
signed by Chairman Stellwagen. the sub-committeemen by 
balcony badges. 

2. Members of the Inaugural Committee, admitted by 
their Inaugural Committee badges. 

3. The official section of the Reception Committee, includ- 
ing the Judges, District Commissioners, Representatives of 
the Army and Navy, Representatives of the Senate and 
House, and members of the Republican National Committee, 
admitted either on balcony badges or on identification by the 
sub-committees on the Senate and House and on the Repub- 
lican National Committee. 

4. Others of the Reception Committee having special 
balcony duties assigned to them indicated by balcony badges. 

5. The Commissioner and the Deputy Commissioner of 
Pensions, and other distinguished persons, admitted through 
the Chairman or Secretary of the Inaugural Committee or 
the Chairman of the Reception Committee. 

Presidential Party. 

The President and Vice-President and members of their 
parties were received upon their arrival at the Pension build- 
ing by a special committee consisting of the Chairman, 'Mr. 
Noyes; the \"ice-Chairman, Mr. Edson, and ^lessrs. C. J. 

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Bell, C. C. Glover, Hennen Jennings, H. B. F. Macfarland, 
Corcoran Thorn, Henry L. West, Gen. Clarence Edwards, 
Gen. John A. Johnston, Gen. John M. Wilson and Major 
Spencer Cosby. This committee met the Presidential and 
Vice-Presidential parties at the 5th Street entrance and 
escorted them to the rooms assigned them in the reserved 
i^allery ; thence from the balcon}^ to the ball room floor for 
the promenade. After the promenade it escorted the Presi- 
dent and Mrs. Taft and the Vice-President and Mrs. Sher- 
man to the Presidential room in the reserved gallery, where 
an informal reception was held, in which the President and 
Vice-President received the distinguished guests and others 
admitted to the gallery. Thence the committee escorted 
the President and Mrs. Taft and the Vice-President and 
Mrs. Sherman to the President's stand overlooking the ball 
room ; later to the supper room ; and after a second visit to 
the President's stand, to the 5th Street exit, by which they 
departed. 

Those participating in the Presidential promenade 
through the ball room were Mr. Gist Blair and Mr. Thomas 
F. W^alsh, Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Floor Com- 
mittee, in the advance; the President and Mrs. Taft, with 
Mr. E. J. Stellwagen, Chairman of the Inaugural Com- 
mittee, on the President's right, and Mr. Theodore W. 
Noyes, Chairman of the Reception Committee, on Mrs. 
Taft's left ; the Vice-President and Mrs. Sherman with Mr. 
George E. Hamilton, Vice-Chairman of the Inaugural Com- 
mittee, on the Vice-President's right, and Mr. John Joy 
Edson, Vice-Chairman of the Reception Committee, on 
Mrs. Sherman's left ; followed by Col. Charles F. Bromwell, 
Capt. A. W. Butt, Capt. S. A. Cheney and Lieut. Comman- 
der L. C. Palmer. 

This year the Vice-President and his wife did not go to 
the White House and accompany the President and his wife 
to the ball, but went directly to the Pension Building from 
their hotel, and preceded the Presidential party by fifteen or 

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twenty minutes. This arrangement involved two distinct 
handlings by the Reception Committee of the Presidential 
and Vice-Presidential parties. If the interval between the 
two arrivals had been only a little less, inconvenience to the 
Presidential party and embarrassment for the Reception 
Committee in the discharge of its duties might easily have 
resulted. In future inaugurations, if conducted by the citi- 
zens of Washington on the usual lines, it is desirable that if 
practicable, the custom should be restored by which the 
Presidential and Vice-Presidential parties arrive together at 
the inaugural ball. 

The expenses incurred by this committee were nominal 
and were paid by the Inaugural Committee. 

Yours verv trulv. 



Theodore W. Noyes, 
Chainnan Reception Committee. 



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S^pnrt of 
Qlommtttpp 0n SI^giBkttcn 

Mr. Edward J Steu.wagen, 

Chainiiaji, Inaugural Committee. 
Dear Sir: 

At the initial meeting of the Inaugural Committee the 
Joint Resolution passed by the Congress for the Inaugural 
Ceremonies of March 4, 1905, was approved with a few 
minor changes, and in this form was promptly introduced 
in the Senate and House by the Chairman of the Committee 
on the District of Columbia. The Resolution covered all 
necessary matters, such as the use of parks and reservations 
for reviewing stands ; the right to erect poles and string 
wires for electric light, telephone, and telegraph service ; 
the use of flags and bunting, and necessary hospital and 
other equipment in connection with the parade and the 
proper care of the large crowd of visitors. It also included 
an appropriation of the necessary funds for additional police 
protection and the establishment of comfort stations. The 
Resolution as thus introduced was favorably reported from 
each Committee. It passed the Senate without opposition. 
In the House some delay and opposition was encountered, 
but it was finally adopted there and promptly approved by 



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the President. The delay was caused by opposition to the 
use of the Pension Building for the inaugural reception to 
the President and Vice-President. The active work of this 
Committee, strongly aided by the Chairman of the Inaugu- 
ral Committee, prevailed, it being made apparent, as on for- 
mer occasions, that this great social function of the inaugu- 
ration could not be held elsewhere because no other building 
was available to accommodate the great throng always pres- 
ent thereat to greet the new Chief Executive. 

Congress, by a separate Resolution, also authorized the 
use of the District Court House by the Maryland National 
Guard. 

No expenses were incurred by the Committee properly 
chargeable to the inaugural fund. 

Respectfully submitted, 

Aldis B. Browne, 
Chairman Committee on Legislation. 



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James S. Henry, Chairman 

Ernest G. Walker, Vice-Chainnan 

O. O. Stealey, Second Vice-Chairman 

To THE Inaugural Committee, 

Edward J. Stellwagen, Chainnan. 
Dear Mr. Stellwagen : 

I beg leave to submit on behalf of the Committee on Press 
the report of the publicity work which preceded the inaugu- 
ration. 

The publicity work was begun January 24th and continued 
for five weeks. During that period stories were sent out 
covering every feature of the inauguration ceremonies, some 
of which were for immediate release and use by wire while 
others were mailed under an adA^ance date. There were 
stories, among others, of the day in general, the parade, 
general and specific, the military division, the civic division, 
the decorative feature, the ball, the fireworks, public com- 
fort, mounted aides, inaugural ball aides, historic, descrip- 
tion of past inaugurals, historic sites, court of honor, etc. 

In addition, about three dozen photographs of the Court 
of Honor were distributed free of charge. 

Four hundred copies of each story were made, the Wash- 



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ington correspondents supplied and about 150 copies of each 
story sent to outside papers east of the Mississippi not repre- 
sented in the National Capital. The demand for additional 
copies of all stories was very heavy and when the press work 
ended the entire print of all of the various articles had been 
exhausted. 

In addition, wire service was furnished the Associated 
Press, the Laffan Bureau (New York Sun service), the 
United Press, the Hearst News Service and special articles 
were written for the Associated Press (for advance) and 
for other publications. 

I wish to state that, viewing press work prior to an inau- 
gural from the regular advertising viewpoint, which, all 
things being equal, anticipates returns directly in ratio with 
the amount of such advertising, it would be better to make 
the appropriation large enough to permit of service being 
extended to those papers in all sections of the country, clear 
out beyond the Mississippi and through the South, which 
have no representatives in Washington. I am satisfied that 
sirch an expenditure would furnish its own argument based 
upon the increased returns. 

James S. Henry, 
Chainjian, Coiiiniittcc on Press. 



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Qlnmmttt^r nn Prtnttng 

Scott C. Bone, Chairman 
Frederick E. Chapin, V ice-Chairman 

To THE Inaugural Committee, 

Mr. E. J. Stellwagen^ Chairman. 

Your Committee on Printing has completed its work and 
submits herewith detailed statements showing the results. 
The official programme netted $1,251.17 profit. 

In former years the Committee on Printing sold the privi- 
lege of printing and handling the official programme, and 
this plan seldom, if ever, proved satisfactory either to the 
committee or the purchaser of the privilege. This year your 
Committee, in conforming with the by-law prescribing its 
duties, advertised for bids for the printing and sale of the 
programme, and received no bid for the combined privilege 
that could be accepted. It was the concensus of opinion at 
the preliminary meeting of the Committee on Printing that 
the official programme should be in keeping with the occa- 
sion and essentially a programme ; that it should be compara- 
tively free from advertising features ; that no solicitors 
should be put in the local field, and that this committee 
should keep the entire work in its hands. Doubt was ex- 
pressed, owing to experiences in the past, of the ability to 
print such a programme at a profit on the plan thus outlined 
and agreed upon, but an executive committee consisting of 

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Frederick E. Chapin, D. S. Porter, W. S. Rossiter and 
Joseph E. Ralph, with the Chairman, was authorized to 
proceed with the work. This executive committee contracted 
with the Geo. E. Howard Printing Co., to print the pro- 
gramme, and with the Washington News Co., a branch of 
the American News Co., to distribute and sell the same. 

As no solicitors were employed, the expenses of the com- 
mittee, including the bills for printing, paper, postage, etc., 
aggregated but $557.19. Advertising of a general nature 
was readily secured by correspondence to the amout of 8% 
pages at $100 per page, yielding $825. The net profit on the 
sale of 12,292 copies of the official programme was $426.17. 
Thus the total profit was $1,251.17. 

The Committee on Printing desires to acknowledge the 
cordial co-operation it received in getting material for the 
programme from the Grand Marshal, his Chief of Staff, and 
the chairmen of the several committees in charge of the fire- 
works, the ball, the menu and the inaugural concerts ; also 
from the chairman of the Committee on Historic Spots for 
material used in the programme, and from Commissioner 
Macfarland for a condensed history of Washington used in 
the publication. 

As the Chairman of the Committee I desire personally to 
recognize in this report the splendid service rendered by the 
members of the Executive Committee directly associated 
with me in the work — a work involving much detail, and 
consequently involving no little time of busy men. 

The Comimittee unqualifiedly recommends that the plan it 
followed in the handling of the official programme be 
adhered to hereafter, and it believes that a reasonable profit 
might easily accrue from the publication if advertising 
should be excluded altogether. The increased demand for 
the official programme this year, even under adverse condi- 
tions, is undoubtedly due to the fact that the publica- 
tion was not so largely commercialized as in the past and 
that it was not merely in name an official programme. An 

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equal, or perhaps a larger, revenue might have been obtained 
if the price had been fixed at 25 cents instead of 15 cents, 
but the number reaching the hands of visitors would have 
been materially reduced; and the Committee believes that 
the nominal figure is desirable. 



Scott C. Bone, 
Chairman Committee on Printing. 



STATEMENT. 

The Washington News Company, 12,292 copies of 

Official Programme at 8 cents per copy $983-36 

Expenses incurred as per schedule 557-19 

Profit on Program $426.17 

Advertising 825.00 

Total Profit $1,251-17 

Advertising — 

The Washington Herald $6.00 

The Washington Post 6.90 

The Washington Times 6.25 

The Evening Star 6.30 

$25.45 

Printing — 

George E. Howard Printing Co. 230.00 

Paper — 

R. P. Andrews Paper Co. 238.05 

(!lerk Hire — 

Henry A. Linn $25.00 

Orrin Hallam 10.00 

35.00 

Artists' Designs — 

J. Harry Cunningham 25.00 

Incidental Expenses, Postage, Stationery, etc. — 

Washington Herald $1.69 

F. E. Chapin 2.00 

3.69 

$557-19 
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Sppnrl of 

Thomas J. D. Fuller, Choirman 
Fleming Newbold, V ice-Chairman 
F. B. PoE, Secretary . 

Mr. Edward J. Stellwagen, 

Chairman, The Inaugural Coinmittee, 

The Neiv Willard, Washington, D. C. 

Dear Sir: 

As Chairman of the Committee on Souvenirs and Tickets 
I have to submit the following report covering the work of 
this Committee. 

The Committee was organized with the following mem- 
bers : Fleming Newbold, Vice-Chairman ; F. B. Poe, Secre- 
tary; LeRoy Tuttle, V. G. Fischer, J. R. Ralph, Oscar 
Luckett, and T. A. Mullett. 

The work of this Committee consisted in providing the 
ball and supper tickets, the official souvenirs to accompany 
the ball tickets and the covers of the dance programs for the 
ball. 

Owing to the short time remaining after the organization 
of the Inaugural Committee to the date of the Inaugural 
Ceremonies, it was essential to push the work of engraving 
and printing to the exclusion of every other consideration. 



Inaugural Committee, March, 1909 

consequently the Committee could not take the risk of spend- 
ing time in the preparation of elaborate designs for the souv- 
enir which might have delayed the work to such an extent as 
to prevent the delivery of the material at the proper time, 
we therefore abandoned any ambitions we might have had 
to produce something particularly original or artistic in 
favor of a simple but dignified souvenir which would enable 
us to run no risk of delay. The souvenir as determined upon 
contained the engraved portraits of the President and Vice- 
President accompanied by biographical sketches, engravings 
of the White House and Capitol and an insertion with the 
names of the Inaugural Committee. 

The ball and supper tickets as well as the dance program 
covers were also engraved. The entire work of engraving 
was done by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and it is 
superfluous to say was of the highest quality. 

' The printing and binding was let to the W. F. Roberts 
Company, the lowest bidders and was entirely satisfactory. 

The Gorman Co., of New York, were employed to bind 
in white Morocco a sufficient number of the souvenirs for 
presentation to the individual members of the Inaugural 
Committee and to prepare and mount three copies 
to be presented to the President, the Vice-President 
and the Chairman of the Inaugural Committee. These 
latter were exceptionally beautiful, the binding being 
of the finest quality white Levant leather, embellished 
with mountings of gold and silver. The designs for the 
President and Vice-President were identical except that the 
former was in gold and the latter in silver cleverly combining 
the initials on a shield as the center which was framed by 
oak and laurel leaves and surmounted by an eagle, all most 
beautifully wrought in strong relief. 

The Chairman of this Committee asked for an appropria- 
tion of $5,500, the same amount as appropriated at the pre- 
vious inaugural, which was allowed. This amount was 
based on providing the following : 

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Twelve thousand ball tickets, 12,000 souvenirs, 12,000 
dance program covers, 6,000 supper tickets. 

In addition to the above there were actually furnished 
and turned over to the Finance Committee 1,500 ball tickets. 

The expenses of this Committee were as follows : 

To the Bureau of Engraving and Printing $3,394-30 

To W. F. Roberts Co. for printing and binding- _ 766.00 

To The Gorham Co., of New York, for special 
work mounting and binding one hundred and 
nine Souvenirs 1,015.00 

To incidentals, postage, express, etc. 8.36 



$5,183.66 



Leaving an unexpended balance of $316.34. 
Respectfully submitted, 



Thomas J. D. Fuller, 

Chairman. 



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Export 0f 
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A. M. Keppel, Chairman 
C. W. CuLP, Vice-Chairman 

B. R. ToLSON, Secretary 



Mr. Edward J. Stellwagen, 

Chairman Inaugural Committee, 
Washington, D. C. 

Dear Sir: 

The Committee on Railroad Terminal Facilities, in mak- 
ing provisions for the safe and expeditious handling of the 
large number of people expected to visit the Nation's Capital 
in connection with the inauguration of President Taft, did 
not anticipate such chaotic conditions as existed on March 
3d and 4th, and it is not difficult to understand how adversely 
they affected the execution of arrangements that were made. 

The train service of the various railroads entering Wash- 
ington was seriously interrupted by reason or in consequence 
of the rain, snow, ice and high winds, and the loss of tele- 
graph and telephone wires and track obstructions that re- 
sulted from the blizzard, and the absence of telegraph and 
telephone facilities, which made communication between 



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Washington and points distant therefrom a matter of im- 
possibihty, was the source of great inconvenience. 

It was a matter of much desirabiHty that those who might 
attend the inaugural ceremonies should be able to promptly 
assure themselves that their welfare had been fully consid- 
ered prior to the occasion, and while the situation may not 
have thus appealed to them, generally, when it is known that 
during the inaugural period, even with the many difficulties 
that confronted the railroads in handling the operation of 
trains, there was not any accident or loss of life, it is self evi- 
dent that all concerned were truly solicitious of the comfort 
and safety of the traveling public. This fact is especially 
gratifying to me, and I am sure it will be to you and all 
others interested. 

The inaugural movement was heavy and as a matter of 
information the following statistical information may be 
desirable, viz : 

Number of oassengers arriving and departing 224,374 

Number of trains arriving and departing 2,303 

Number of engines and cars arrivi.ig and departing 16,084 

Number of pieces of baggage handled 54,999 

Number of parcels handled 14,842 

The Washington Terminal Company did not park on its 
property, for occupancy, any chartered cars, but we are in- 
formed that a number of such cars were parked in the local 
freight yards. A few trains carrying troops were handled at 
the Union Station, but the majority of the troops who par- 
ticipated in the inaugural procession were handled at points 
off the property of the Terminal Company. 

The dining room and lunch room at the Union Station 
were operated day and night (24 hours) during the inaugu- 
ral period and meals were served at either at the rates regu- 
larly in force, no extra charge being made on account of the 
occasion. 

For the convenience of the public, space was assigned at 
the Union Station for the use of representatives of the Public 



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Comfort Committee and the Post Office Department, that 
assigned to the latter having been used in connection with 
the Branch Post Office that was operated during the inaugu- 
ral period. Quarters was also provided for representatives 
of the Red Cross Society. 

It was arranged to make train announcements at the 
Union Station by means of a stereopticon telautograph. The 
scheme was somewhat of an innovation and while the opera- 
tion was very much restricted by reason of wire troubles, the 
results obtained were quite satisfactory. The visual feature 
of the arrangement was a decided advantage over that of 
audible announcement and made it possible for information 
to be obtained without so many questions having to be asked, 
yet, as stated, the full benefit contemplated was not realized 
because of wire troubles. 

The unprecedented bad weather conditions that existed on 
March 3d and 4th caused many difficulties and were no 
doubt responsible for the number of visitors in attendance 
not being larger. 

It is to be hoped that before the approach of another 
similar occasion that appropriate action will be taken to have 
the celebration thereof on a day that will be likely to insure 
against inclement weather. 



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Yours very truly, 

A. M. Keppel, 

Chairman Committee on Railroad Terminal Facilities. 



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Qlnmmtlt^^ on Publtr Qlnmfnrt 

Michael I. A\'eller, Chair^nan 
James F. Oyster, First Vice-Chainnan 
James F. Hood, Second Vice-Chairman 

Henry K. Simpsox, Secretary 

Mr. Edward J. Stellwagen, 

CJiainiian Inaugural Coniiuiftcc, 

Nezv Willard Hotel, Washington, D. C. 

Dear Mr. Stellwagen : 

I beg to tender herewith my final report of the Committee 
on PubHc Comfort, requesting that you will accord it your 
favorable approval. I accepted the position as Chairman 
with considerable reluctance as you know, having placed my- 
self unqualifiedly upon record, four years ago, that I would 
under no circumstances serve as Chairman of this Committee 
again, as I was fully aware that its duties required the sur- 
render of my whole time to its service, that its details in- 
volved a great many unpleasant experiences and that, with 
the greatest success attending my efforts, I was nevertheless 
convinced that it would be impossible to give satisfaction to 
all of our visitors, as well as to the parties renting premises 
to them, and that I was conscious that a fifth term as Chair- 
man of this most important Committee could furnish no 
additional laurels, nor add more glory, but that it meant 



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plenty of personal hard work. I finally yielded, but upon 
the expressed condition that I was not to be called again to 
act in a similar capacity. At the first meeting of the Inau- 
gural Committee I requested an appropriation of two thou- 
sand dollars for the use of the Committee on Public Com- 
fort. My detailed estimate of maximum expenditures being 
as follows : 

For rent of offices $100.00 

Office requisites, books, signs, inspectors' blanks, 

cards, printing, car tickets for inspectors, etc., 200.00 
(Exclusive of official stationery and badges to 

be furnished by the Inaugural Committee.) 

Postage stamps and telegrams 75-00 

Newspapers, advertising for rooms, etc. 100.00 

Official Maps of Washington City 170.00 

Expenses at Union Station 100.00 

Clerks, Inspectors, Guides 1,038.00 

Expenses for Sub-Committee for Colored 

Visitors 150.00 

Sundries, including telephone 67.00 

Total $2,000.00 



I stated to you at the time that I would not permit the ex- 
penses of the Committee to exceed this sum, but would strive 
to return a surplus. That I have redeemed this promise 
and have exercised the greatest possible economy in the man- 
agement of the Committee is evidenced by the fact that the 
detailed disbursements of the Committee are less than seven- 
teen hundred dollars, taking into consideration the fact that 
official stationery has been charged against the Committee. 
This amount covers all expenditures from December 15, 
1908, until March 13, 1909, inclusive. 

The officers of the Committee were Michael I Weller, 
Chairman, James F. Oyster, 1st Vice-Chairman, James F. 
Hood, 2d Vice-Chairman, Henry K. Simpson, Secretary, 
E. Elmo Clark, Clerk, and Leon Manghum, Assistant Clerk 
and Stenographer. 

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Offices were opened at 945 Pennsylvania Avenue, N. W., 
in rooms 30 and 31, under the rental agreement of one hun- 
dred dollars for the entire period, ending March 10, 1909. 
The rules adopted by the Inaugural Committee to govern 
the Committee on Public Comfort were as follows : 

''The Committee on Public Comfort shall render all possi- 
ble assistance to visitors desiring accommodations in Wash- 
ington at the time of the Inauguration. It shall aid them 
in securing suitable quarters in hotels, public halls and pri- 
vate residences. It shall establish an office and obtain and 
keep on file there accurate information regarding accommo- 
dations and rates of charges at hotels and other lodging 
places, including private residences, where guests can pro- 
cure rooms. It shall asceitain as far as practicable the 
amount, character and prices of rations that can be supplied 
by responsible caterers for the subsistence of military and 
civic organizations in attendance at the Inauguration. It 
shall promptly furnish the Committee on Military Organi- 
zations and the Committee on Civic Organizations such in- 
formation as may be desired regarding quarters for visiting 
organizations, and shall co-operate to the fullest possible 
extent with these committees in looking after the comfort 
of such organizations during their stay in Washington." 

The following standing advertisement was inserted in the 
local newspapers, Washington Post, Washington Herald, 
Evening Star, and Washington Times, for a period of one 
month : 

Inaugural Committee. 
Committee of Public Comfort. 

Rooms 30 and 31, Merchants & Mechanics Savings Bank 
Building, Pa. Ave. and 10th Sts., N. W. 

All parties desiring to furnish quarters to visitors during 
the Inaugural period are requested to call at this office or 
send description of rooms, stating the number of persons 
that can be supplied with beds or cots, with or without meals, 
terms, etc. 

M. I. Weller, 

Chairman, Cotmnittee on Public Comfort. 
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Responses to this advertisement came in great numbers, 
so that it became necessary to appoint Mr. Edward N. Bow- 
man as inspector on December 22d, and he was given the fol- 
lowing credentials : 

To Whom It May Concern : 

The bearer, Mr. Edward N. Bowman, is a duly appointed 
inspector of this Committee, authorized and instructed to 
inspect carefully all quarters for the incoming visitors ; these 
quarters will be registered on our books, free of expense to 
you, or to your guests, and any employee of this Committee 
accepting any gratuity will be promptly discharged. Our 
object is to secure proper accommodations at reasonable 
rates, but at the same time this Committee will incur no 
financial responsibility. 

You are requested to permit Mr. Bowman to make the 
necessary investigation and kindly furnish him with all 
needed information. 

Subsequently, two other inspectors, viz. : Mr. F. F. Repetti, 
Jr. and Mr. Charles S. Wilson, were appointed, all three in- 
spectors remaining with the Committee until the conclusion 
of its labors, performing their arduous tasks in a most com- 
mendable manner, creditable to themselves and gratifying 
to this Committee. All quarters were duly inspected and 
classified and when approved were registered upon our 
books ; in addition, letters were mailed to all proprietors 
of hotels, boarding houses, and public halls which were fol- 
low^ed up by personal canvassing by the three inspectors of 
all available buildings. that were deemed suitable for sleep- 
ing accommodations for organized bodies, military and civic, 
as well as for the individual visitors. 

Application for free quarters for the accommodation of 
the National Guards were received from a number of the 
Adjutant Generals of the different States to wdiom, in reply, 
we invariably sent a copy of the resolutions adopted by the 
Inaugural Committee, December 24, 1908. 

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The following resolutions, adopted In- the Inaugural 
Committee, at a meeting held December 24, 1908, are pub- 
lished for the information of those interested : 

Resolved, That it is deemed advisa1)le to announce that 
while the Inaugural Committee will spare no pains to extend 
to all visitors a hearty welcome and make every possible pro- 
vision for their comfort, whether coming as individuals, 
associations or military organizations, a free entertainment 
to anyone is impossible and no application for such entertain- 
ment can be considered, nor can the Committee provide for 
the payment of any portion of the expenses of visiting or- 
ganizations. The Committee hopes, however, to keep prices 
down to the usual rates, and to prevent exhorbitant charges ; 
Be it further 

Resolved, That notice of this action be printed and sent 
out to all applicants for aid in connection with the Inaugural 
Ceremonies. 

Respectfully, 

Attest : Edward J. Stellwagen, 

Corcoran Thom, Chairman. 

Secretary. 

It became apparent at once that if the National Guards 
came in numbers indicated by the applications, that there 
would be a great scarcity in cjuarters of well lighted and well 
heated halls. This condition forced me to the opinion that it 
might be advisable to procure a number of our public school 
buildings for such quarters, under proper restrictions, the 
visiting commands to execute a bond for the restoration of 
the buildings to the state in which they were found, when 
placed at their disposal, combined with a cash deposit for the 
payment of needful repairs and cleaning of the building after 
use, and the adoption of other precautionary measures, that 
might be required by the Board of Education. I was aware 
that the clause in Public Act, No. 115, approved March 3, 
1893, contained the following: ''That hereafter the public 
school buildings of the District of Columbia shall be used for 
no purpose whatever other than those directly con- 



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nected with the pubhc school S3^stem of the District," and 
that it would require an act of Congress to suspend the oper- 
ation of this law for the Inaugural Week. I was accorded 
a hearing by the Board of Education and made an argument 
in favor of this proposition, but after due consideration, the 
Board of Education declined to favor a suspension of the 
law, for the main reason, that the use of public school build- 
ings by the National Guards might involve too long an inter- 
ruption to the studies of the children, requiring perhaps a 
period of two weeks before the buildings would again be fit 
for occupation. 

Upon receipt of the resolutions passed by the Board of 
Education, I placed the whole question before my Executive 
Committee, composed of the following members : 

IMichael I. Weller, Chairman 
J. F. Oyster, First Vice-Chairman 
James F. Hood, Second Vice-Chairman 
Henry K. Simpson, Secretary 



O. T. Beaumont 

C. F. Benjamin 
W. J. Browning 
W. B. Bryan 

A. B. Coppes 
T. I. DeLand 

D. E. Garges 
A. Girouard 
P. J. Haltigan 

E. J. Hannan 
A. G. Herrman 
W. C. Hibbs 
W. H. Hoeke 

F. O. Horstman 
C. E. Howe 

P. M. Hughes 
W. J. Hughes 
O. Luckett 
C. B. Hunt 
M. A. Lynch 
J. D. Maher 
C. A. ^IcCarthy 
H. H. McKee 
L. M. Miller 



E. A. Moseley 
G. W. Moss 
J. L. Parsons 
L. E. Payson 
Dr. R. A. Pyles 
Dr. E. F. Repetti 
W. p. Richards 
A. Schulteis 
A. R. Serven 
N. H. Shea 
A. L. Sinclair 
H. W. Sohon 
A. F. Sperry 
G. Spransy 
W. Tindall 
E. H. Tucker 
E. Voigt 
J. H. Walker 
S. H. Walker 
R. White 
A. D. Wilkinson 
J. C. Yost 
Daniel Alurrav 



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After an exhaustive discussion of the entire subject, it was 
decided that it was deemed inadvisable for the Committee on 
Pubhc Comfort to take any further action looking towards 
the suspension of the law prohibiting the use of the public 
school buildings, in view of the action of tlie Board of Edu- 
cation. Meanwhile a thorough personal canvass of the city 
by our inspectors had influenced a number of owners, who 
had previously disliked the idea of quartering troops in their 
respective buildings, to change their minds, so with an in- 
creased registration of buildings, our list of available quar- 
ters for military bodies was increased to a gratifying extent, 
giving assurance that we had ample quarters listed for all 
possible contingencies and at moderate charges, not exceed- 
ing one dollar per man for the entire stay, based upon a 
three or four days' visit, in heated and well lighted buildings, 
the visitors to use their own blankets, sleeping upon the 
floors. Where cots were required, the cost of the rental of 
the cots averaging about one dollar per man was added. 

The Committee was making progress with the dif- 
ferent bodies of the National Guards, locating numerous 
regiments, until the beginning of February, when there was 
noted a marked change and a rapid falling off of applications 
for quarters by the military bodies. Upon investigation it 
developed that the railroad companies had adopted a new 
policy, offering inducements to the military commands, 
agreeing to park their trains, at a nominal charge. The large 
commands were to be supplied with day coaches, allowing 
their use during their entire stay for soldiers entirely free of 
cost, with the promise that necessary toilet conveniences 
would be supplied. This action on the part of the railroad 
companies naturally interfered with the renting of halls and 
notwithstanding the low price, averaging less than thirty 
cents per day per man, for their stay, a number of the com- 
panies succumbed to the inducements of the railroads and 
used ordinary railroad cars for sleeping purposes to the sad 
discomfort of the soldiers and to financial injury to our 



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city. Notwithstanding my warning that this action would 
be detrimental to all parties concerned, it was adhered to 
with the results as predicted, lack of comfort and danger to 
health during the blizzard weather, owing to the absence of 
adequate heating, lighting and ventilation, combined with 
the other disagreeable feature of being parked in remote 
and undesirable localities. It was a nuisance to our citizens 
and a menace to the visiting strangers and certainly should 
never occur again. With the change of the inaugural date 
to a more balmy season of the year, it may be unnecessary in 
the future to furnish indoor quarters ; then probably tents 
will be placed in camps for the shelter of visiting troops at 
the expense of the United States Government, which ought 
to adopt the policy of calling for a representation from every 
State, in proportion to its population, to report at Washing- 
ton for the inaugural period, and all expenses, both of trans- 
portation, quarters and maintenance, should then be de- 
frayed by the Government, as the National Guards are now 
considered an auxiliary army under the control of the War 
Department. 

Series of bulletins, numbering from one to thirty-five, 
were issued at intervals in editions from one to five hundred, 
and distributed throughout the various States. These bulle- 
tins contained detailed information of location of hotels, 
boarding houses, halls, private houses, etc., with terms, re- 
quired length of stay, etc., for the use of intending visitors. 
Bulletins of private houses bearing this foot note : 

These premises have been duly inspected l^y this com- 
mittee and found in proper condition. Owners have agreed 
in writing to abide by rates quoted. We cannot undertake 
to make contracts for visitors, and therefore recommend that 
parties correspond direct with owners furnishing accommo- 
dations. Rates are generally based on a visit of four days 
or longer ; deposit required ; names checked are in accordance 
with your expressed wishes. Meals can be obtained in the 
neighlDorhood and at some of the places that have not stated 
their rates with meals. 

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Our correspondence assumed large proportions, many let- 
ters inquiring for accommodations were rece\ied from or- 
ganizations as well as from private parties ; all were accorded 
prompt attention, enclosing in all of our letters copies of the 
special interesting inaugural map, which I had prepared 
with great care and which was copyrighted. It is an up-to- 
date map with the numerous physical changes noted and, 
judged by the generous praises bestowed upon it, was a 
success. Copies of the same, printed on linen and hand- 
somely framed, were delivered to President Taft, Vice- 
President Sherman and Speaker Cannon. 

Valuable assistance was rendered by my Executive Com- 
mittee, comprising among its membership some of the lead- 
ing professional and business men of our city. Meetings 
were held every Friday at the office of the Committee. On 
February 25th, in addition to the above, I selected the Gen- 
eral Committee, with a white membership of three hundred 
and ninety-two, addressing the follow^ing card to every 
member : 

Dear Sir : 

I have the honor to inform you herewith of your appoint- 
ment to membership upon the Committee on Public Comfort 
and to request that you will kindly fill out and forward by 
return mail the attached card stating thereon the days and 
hours you will be willing to serve at our sub-office at the 
Union Station, A. B. Coopes, Chairman. 

This sub-office will be opened on March 1st, at 4 P. M. 
and will remain in continual operation until March 4th, 1 1 
A. M. 

Please attend the meeting of this Committee on Friday, 
February 26th, 8 P. M., at Knights of Columbus Hall, 606 
E Street, N. W., for further instructions and where your 
badge will be delivered to you. 

Hoping every member will respond faithfully to the patri- 
otic duty of receiving our visitors in a commensurate man- 
ner, I remain. Very truly yours, 

M. I. Weller. 
Chairman Comiuittcc on Public Comfort. 

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The return card contained the following : 

Dear Sir : 

I will serve at the Union Station 

on March 1st, from to 

on March 2d, from to 

on March 3d, from to 

on March 4th, from to 

as a member of the Committee on Public Comfort. 

Yours truly, 

For the convenience of the public, I appointed a sub-com- 
mittee numbering 363 with Mr. William J. Browning, Chief 
Clerk of the House of Representatives, as Chairman, at the 
United States Capitol, to assist the members of Congress in 
procuring accommodations for their constituents. 

In line with the policy introduced by me at the inaugura- 
tions of 1893, 1901, and 1905, as well as during the Grand 
Army celebration of 1902, I appointed a special sub-com- 
mittee for colored visitors, with Mr. Daniel Murray as 
Chairman, assisted by fifty-one members chosen by him from 
the leading colored residents of the District, past experience 
having clearly demonstrated the necessity of procuring 
adequate accommodations for colored visitors and hospitable 
treatment in the homes of the more refined members of their 
own race in our city. 

]\Ir. Murray opened an office at 609 F Street with 
William E. Hope and Samuel Lacey as clerk and inspector 
under a similar method as used at the main office, 945 Penn- 
sylvania Avenue, keeping registration books with lists of 
inspected quarters, etc., for colored visitors. The expenses 
of this sub-committee, to the amount of $150.00, were paid 
by the Inaugural Committee upon vouchers approved by me, 
besides which sum he was supplied with postage stamps and 
office stationery, books, etc. ; the balance of the money 
needed to defray all the expenses of the sub-committee Mr. 
Murray obtained from the proceeds of a collection amongst 
friends of the enterprise. I headed the list with a personal 

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subscription of ten dollars. From all information I can 
state that the office was well conducted, giving excellent 
satisfaction and supplied respectable quarters at a moderate 
cost to the colored visitors. 

The appropriation of $2,000.00 for public convenience 
stations was expended under the supervision of H. B. Davis, 
Inspector of Plumbing, locations having been selected by the 
sub-committee composed of Mr. Jas. L. Parsons, Dr. Wm. 
Tindall, David C. Garges, and H. B. Davis. 

Through the courtesy of Mr. A. M. Keppel, the parcel 
room at the Union Station was assigned for the use of this 
Committee. On March 1st this sub-office was opened by 
Mr. A. B. Coppes as chairman. Conspicuous signs placed at 
each entrance on the concourse as well as in the waiting 
room drew the attention of the visiting public. The sub- 
office had carefully compiled lists of inspected rooms in 
private houses in every section of the city, and the three in- 
spectors, Mr. Bowman, Mr. Wilson and Mr. Repetti, to- 
gether with Mr. Manghum, were detailed as clerks to the 
sub-office to facilitate the transaction of business, as they 
were thoroughly familiar with all quarters, etc. It remained 
open continuously until noon of March 4th. At the request 
of Mr. B. F. Barnes, Postmaster, a section of this office 
was granted to the Post Office Department, which opened a 
sub-postal station for the convenience of visitors. I under- 
stand that this postal station transacted such a large business 
during the inaugural week that it has been made permanent. 
I visited the Union Station frequently during these four 
days and was much pleased to find that so large a number of 
the members of my committee were always present, in spite 
of the terrible condition of the weather, at every hour, day 
and night, wearing their conspicuous red badges bearing the 
inscription 'Tublic Comfort," meeting the arrivals from every 
train, and affording them every information desired. Those 
in need of quarters were conducted to the sub-office and then 
sent to the place of destination selected by them under the 

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escort of one of the uniformed public comfort guides. These 
pubHc comfort guides were all High School Cadets, bright, 
intelligent young gentlemen, thoroughly accjuainted with our 
city, and who had previously received special instructions, 
so that they were capable of leading visitors to any point in 
the District ; there were 96 white guides and 10 colored. I 
feel that I am under obligations to Prof. Percy M. Hughes, 
who had sole charge of the Cadets, for his admirable man- 
agement and the full success that attended their efiforts; 
they performed the arduous duties assigned to them with 
great credit to the community. I am proud of our boys. 
These guides were paid by the Inaugural Committee, each 
receiving $1.00 per day, and furnished on every trip with car 
fare, so that they would not be of the slightest expense to 
the visitors, who, in turn, expressed their agreeable surprise 
at the careful attention bestowed upon them, and who fre- 
quently voiced their approval of our methods which pro- 
tected strangers against extortioners and enabled them to 
secure excellent conveniences at moderate prices. 

In some instances hotels charged perhaps excessive rates, 
but the fact remains clearly evident, as shown by the books 
of this Committee, that the prevailing prices for lodging 
averaged about $1.00 per day and room and board inclusive 
the average rate was about $2.00 per day. Moreover, good 
accommodations could be obtained at still lower prices. 
- The Committee made no distinction, showed no prefer- 
ence ; visitors were sent impartially to private or boarding 
houses, hotels or halls as desiied, but this was only done 
when assurances were given of fair rates and such agree- 
ment filed in our office. 

Severe and unwarranted criticism has been indulged in by 
outside newspapers, supplemented by ridiculous assertions 
that thousands of visitors were unable to find shelter and 
were compelled to seek refuge in doorways ; correspondents 
with lively imaginations and mendacious talents have for- 
warded lurid tales of inflated charges for accommodations 

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that positively lacked all basis of truth. Some of these 
vivid lies I was able to contradict, but I fear that there still 
remained a credulous public that believed it required a mil- 
lionaire's wealth in order to spend a few days here during 
the inaugural period. In order to effectually counteract 
these perverted geniuses who distribute such prejudiced 
statements, I beg to recommend that four years hence the 
Press Committee be authorized to advertise in a liberal man- 
ner throughout the land the actual average prices charged. 

I received a number of complaints from visitors regarding 
extortionate rates charged by restaurants and lunch rooms, 
especially that some of the five-cent lunch rooms had unduly 
increased their prices to more than double the customary 
figures. Upon investigation I ascertained that there was 
some foundation to this complaint, but I am glad to be able 
to state that such cases were only sporadic and the over- 
whelming majority of proprietors adhered to the old rule 
that ''Honesty is the best policy," finding their reward in 
the increased business brought by the influx of visitors. A 
glaring example of overcharge on the part of the managers 
which resulted in damages to the establishment by the in- 
censed patrons attracted general attention. I personally in- 
vestigated this case where the owners admitted to me that 
they raised their rates, justifying their action with the 
plea "that they could charge what they pleased." I 
replied that they had no legal right to increase their 
rates two, three or four fold without giving previous notice 
to the customers, posting the prices in a conspicuous place, 
and that their behavior disgraced the fair fame of the city 
of Washington, etc. That excessive charges for food sup- 
plies naturally provoked resentment especially among the 
ranks of the visiting soldiers and while physical violence is 
not justifiable, nevertheless, in this instance, it was a display 
of that excusable trait in human nature to resent the inflic- 
tion of a palpable wrong. I am of the opinion that the in- 
crease of prices was a violation of the Act of the Legislative 

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Assembly of the District of Columbia, Chapter 51, approved 
June 20, 1872, which prescribes in Section 1 ''that keepers or 
owners of eating houses must put in a conspicuous place in 
their eating houses a scale of the prices for which the differ- 
ent articles they have for sale will be furnished/' Section 2, 
"That persons violating the provisions of the above section 
are to be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and upon conviction 
in a court having jurisdiction, are to be fined by the court not 
less than twenty dollars and not more than fifty dollars." 

The strict enforcement of this Act in a few cases would 
certainly prevent the painful recurrence of such an incident 
and would correct the existing evil of imposing upon our 
guests, but in the event of this Act being considered obsolete 
or inoperative, then it will become the duty of the local 
authorities to provide some police regulation for the pro- 
tection of consumers under a guarded license system, with a 
forfeiture of the same as a penalty. 

The attendance from a distance this year did not come up 
to the expectations entertained during the month of January 
when all appearances indicated that our city would be hon- 
ored by a greater advent of visitors than on any other similar 
occasion. Governed by this impression, I made all necessary 
preparations, finally formulating a larger list of inspected 
quarters for organized bodies but more especially for small 
or individual parties ; householders too prepared for visitors 
on an extensive scale, resulting in a bitter disappointment to 
them when they failed to be favored with the anticipated 
patronage. Finding their outlay useless, they perhaps at- 
tached some blame to this Committee for their individual 
financial loss, but the Committee on Public Comfort should 
not be held responsible for the non-arrival of desired guests. 
This ought to be attributed to other causes, whether owing 
to the prevailing financial depression or to lack of enthusi- 
asm or to the shocking bad weather, I am unable to deter- 
mine. All I know is that we had on hand, unused inspected 
quarters, sufiicient accommodations to shelter over 40,000 

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persons without counting the large number of rooms re- 
ported to us after February 25th too late for inspection. 

The labor of Mv. A. B. Coppes, Chairman of the Com- 
mittee at the Union Station, entitles him to a resolution of 
thanks from the Inaugural Committee, as this gentleman de- 
voted himself exclusively to the duties of this position day 
and night with a self-sacrificing zeal that merits full recog- 
nization of his invaluable services. He infused his assistants 
with equal ardor so that their joint efiforts were crowned 
with brilliant success, which redounded to the credit of our 
city. 

We are also under obligations to our faithful emplovees 
for efficient work under trying circumstances and at meager 
compensation. We received appreciative courtesies from 
Mr. W. H. Hoeke, the Oliver Typewriter Co., Swayze, Baily 
& Co., Marcus Notes, etc. The offices at 945 Pennsylvania 
Avenue, N. W'., were closed promptly on March 10th, as the 
Committee on Public Comfort had completed its task for 
which it had been called into existence, therefore, as its final 
act and in its behalf, I beg of you to accept for your esteemed 
self and cherished secretary, Mr. Corcoran Thom, our grate- 
ful appreciation of the many acts of consideration accorded 
to us. 

Very respectfully, 

M. I. Weller, 

Chainnan, Coininittcc on Public Comfort. 



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]\Iajor Richard Sylvester, Chairman 

Daniel M. Ransdell, Vice-Chainnan 

E. B. Hesse, Secretary 



To Mr. Edward J. Stellwagen, 

Chainnmi^ hiaugural Coinniittce. 

Dear Sir : 

This Committee was charged with the making of arrange- 
ments for the maintenance of peace and order, for the secur- 
ity to Hfe, Hmb and property preceding, during and follow- 
ing the day of inauguration, March 4, 1909, which included 
the prevention of crime, apprehension of criminals, precau- 
tion against fire, the care and treatment of the sick and in- 
jured, the promulgation of the regulations and orders of the 
Honorable the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, 
the clearing and maintaining undisturbed the ground for the 
inaugural parade, the prevention of disorder and congestion 
at the intersecting streets and avenues, the proper policing of 



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the inaugural ball and other detail looking to the welfare of 
the distinguished guests and our own citizens on the occasion 
of the inauguration. 

Anticipating favorable action upon the Joint Resolution 
then pending in Congress, authorizing the granting of 
permits to the Committee on the arrangement of matters 
for the fourth of March, 1909, on January 9th, requisition 
was made upon the Chairman of the General Committee to 
procure from the Honorable the Secretary of War, twenty- 
five (25) Government ambulances, complete with drivers, 
horses, stretchers and bells and fifty (50) regulation United 
States Red Cross flags, two for each of the ambulances and 
twenty (20) Red Cross flags and poles for the use of the 
outriders who were to accompany the ambulances, and five 
(5) extra stretchers to be used at the hospital to be estab- 
lished in the Pension Building during the ball and concerts. 
A like requisition was made on the Chairman of the General 
Committee to procure from Major-General J. Franklin Bell. 
Chief of Staff of the United States Army, for the use of the 
Inaugural Committee on March fourth, twenty (20 '» 
mounted cavalrymen, one to be detailed at each ambulance 
station and with each ambulance in the inaugural service ; 
to accompany these vehicles along the line of parade and to 
the various hospitals as outriders. These first requisitions 
were made and favorable action taken thereon with a view 
of establishing that important feature of the Committee's 
organization — the Medical and Hospital Corps — for the 
care of the sick and injured during the inaugural week, and 
more especially upon inauguration day. 

In furthering this feature, D. Percy Hickling, M. D., was 
chosen as Chairman of the Hospital and Ambulance Service 
Division of the Committee on Public Order, and that gen- 
tleman was directed to arrange for the locating of ambu- 
lances on the evening of the fireworks, and to confer with 
Miss Mabel Boardman, of the Red Cross Society, relative 
to locating temporary relief tents on the grounds where the 

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extensive fireworks display was to be had for the occasion ; 
regarding a hospital inside the gates of the Union Station, 
a room having been procured for such usage, in connection 
with the Red Cross; for the arranging of ambulances at 
the terminal depot, assigning surgeons therefor, and for con- 
veying patients to and from the respective hospitals. 

The Chairman of this service was also instructed to can- 
vass the various large buildings where troops or other organ- 
izations might be cjuartered, looking to the proper sanitary 
conditions therein, in such manner as might be outlined and 
determined upon. The Chairman of the Medical and Hos- 
pital Service was also directed to designate the locations for 
ambulances along the line of parade, to- be fully 
manned with drivers, and to be equipped with litters and 
flags and each to be accompanied by a cavalryman as an 
outrider, and in making these arrangements, disagreeable 
weather was taken into consideration and provision had 
for proper reliefs, as w^ell as for the feeding of the employees 
and stock. 

In connection with this service, information was conveyed 
to the Chairman that the Red Cross would provide litter- 
carriers, who would be located at the various telephone 
booths near the intersecting streets and avenues to the line 
of parade, where ambulances might be located. 

He was further advised that the Red Cross Society would 
place tents in the Smithsonian Grounds, Lafayette Park and 
at other locations, and that large crowds would be in the 
vicinity of the United States Capitol Grounds, where ample 
provision should be made for urgent hospital service re- 
Cjuirements. 

In conclusion, the surgeon in charge of this auxiliary was 
authorized to arrange for a hospital within the building 
where the inaugural ball would be held, to be properly 
equipped and for which nurses would be provided. 

Frank J. Wagner, Chief of the District of Columbia Fire 
Department, was named as Chairman of the Sub-Committee 

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on Fire Protection for the inaugural period, and 
with D. Percy HickHng, M. D., was named as Vice-Chair- 
man of the Executive Committee of the Committee on Pub- 
lic Order, and these two gentlemen selected the membership 
of their respective sub-committees from among the citizens 
comprising the Committee on Public Order. 

Chief Wagner was requested to report to the General 
Committee, first, on the inspection of buildings where troops 
or other large organizations might be quartered, as to the 
danger from fire and for the enforcement of the laws and 
regulations ; to inspect and report on stands as to the danger 
from fire and for the enforcement of the laws and regula- 
tions ; to inspect and report on theaters and public halls as 
to the danger from fire and for the enforcement of the regu- 
lations ; to make designations for the fireworks ; to arrange 
for a patrol of the business section of the District during the 
time of the parade with the view of guarding against fire 
and accident ; to early arrange and designate for the Pension 
Building such force and equipment as might be necessary to 
guard against fire during the time the building was being 
used for inaugural purposes — decorated and arranged, and 
during and following the ball, including the concerts which 
would be given. 

Co-operation between the police and fire service at the 
Pension Building was earnestly urged on the part of the 
Chairman of this sub-committee. He was also requested to 
report as to what streets should be left open during the time 
of parade as "fire-runs" for the Fire Department. 

In addition to the sub-committees to which I have just re- 
ferred, fifty members of the Committee on Public Order 
were directed to be in attendance at the inaugural ball to 
give attention to all matters looking to the safety of property 
and the exclusion of improper characters and to see that all 
lost property was turned in to Police Headquarters in the 
building, and to report any and all complaints requiring the 
attention of the police or regarding missing property, and 

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they were also to guard against fire and accident and freely 
circulate around the ball room on the first floor and exer- 
cise their police authority when the law was violated. Mr. 
M. E. Ailes was the Chairman of this sub-committee. 

Another sub-committee was that on Street Obstructions, 
the first division being in charge of Captain J. D. Bartlett 
and the second division being in charge of Captain Isaac 
Cans. It was the duty of the twenty members of each of 
these divisions to make a thorough canvass of all business 
houses on Pennsylvania Avenue from First Street to Fif- 
teenth Street, and Fifteenth Street, from Pennsylvania 
Avenue to New York Avenue northwest, and to urge the 
proprietors of the same not to allow boxes, barrels, tables 
and similar obstructions to be placed on the sidewalks on 
March fourth during the parade. They were to give warn- 
ing that it was a violation of law to do so and to ask for 
co-operation on the part of owners and others with the 
authorities to prevent such conditions. They were directed 
to make a canvass on the second, third and fourth days of 
March, which could best be made by the dividing into 
couples, in order to cover their respective localities. They 
were informed as to where the patrol wagons could be found 
in the localities named in the accompanying cards of direc- 
tions, how to convey violators of the law to the Station 
Houses, and that assistance could be had from any regular or 
special policeman upon call, and that the offense should be 
entered where complaint was made as ''Obstructing the 
Street." 

The Sub-Committee on the Terminal Station, with four 
divisions divided into six reliefs, was appointed, the members 
alternating in giving supervision and in protecting persons 
and property and in preserA^ng order, giving directions to 
strangers coming and going on the third, fourth, and fifth 
days of March at the Union Station. 

The orders did not preclude the members of the commit- 
tee from moving about, but rather favored their going into 

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the various waiting rooms, sitting rooms, smoking apart- 
ments, and toilets. They were to give particular attention 
to drivers of vehicles to see that no imposition was practiced 
and that they had the proper rate cards posted accord- 
ing to law, and they were informed that under the law they 
could settle disputed hack bills according to the rates pre- 
vailing in this jurisdiction. 

They were to circulate about the ticket office and see that 
no suspicious characters were following women and 
intoxicated persons and were to familiarize themselves 
with streets and car lines in order to be able to direct stran- 
gers to hotels and other places. 

These committeemen were to be particular in noticing that 
evil-disposed persons did not pick up satchels or baggage of 
others, which is a frequent offense in crowds, and were to 
give attention to those going out of the gates and to pro- 
tect women, children, and invalids from crushes and imposi- 
tions ; they were informed where the ambulances were 
located at the depot to convey patients to the hospitals and 
where the temporary hospital was located at the station, and 
were instructed in detail as to other police duties. 

The first of these divisions was in charge of Captain A. 
J. Cummings, the second of Captain C. C. Coombs, the third 
of Captain Calvin Farnsworth, and the fourth of Captain 
R. A. O'Brien. 

Making further allotment of the Committee on Public 
Order, a sub-committee comprising twenty-five members, 
with Capt. Charles A. Baker as Chairman, was designated to 
visit the various places where strangers were stopping with 
the view of protecting them from imposition by vehicle 
drivers and others who would in any way impose upon or 
take advantage of them. 

In addition to the sub-committees heretofore named, one 
under the chairmanship of Captain Cuno H. Rudolph was 
appointed to look after affairs at the fireworks on the White 
Lot on March fourth, and the members comprising this sub- 

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comniillee were to report to their chairman for ckity in keep- 
ing the grounds clear of boxes, and barrels and in maintain- 
ing good order and preventing fire and accident. 

A final sub-committee, yet one highly necessary, of which 
D. S. Carll was Chairman, was designated to assist in the 
expedition of arrangements for the parade, and included all 
the assignments that could be made from among the remain- 
ing members of the Committee on Public Order. 

Aside from the general arrangements for safety to life 
and property, and precautions against illness, extraordinary 
efforts were made to co-operate with the Metroj^olitan Po- 
lice Department of the District of Columbia, and in consum- 
mating the details of the grand parade the Grand Marshal, 
Major General J. Franklin Bell, and his Chief of Staff, Brig- 
adier General John A. Johnston, were extended every possi- 
ble assistance. 

For March 4th the parade ground from B Street and Del- 
aware Avenue, northeast, to 19th Street and Pennsylvania 
Avenue, northwest, was roped with wire cable along the line 
of the curb, except that at the intersecting streets manila 
rope was used as loops one square back from the points of 
intersection, also at the immediate points of intersection ; 
this to permit of authorized vehicles crossing the line of 
parade between certain hours and to prevent the conges- 
tion of vehicles within the immediate vicinity of the crowds 
of pedestrians and to insure open runs for ambulances, fire 
engines and patrol wagons. 

Many wagon loads of sand were arranged for, in anticipa- 
tion of ice and snow being on the parade line, and this was 
all in readiness the morning of March 4th, when it was scat- 
tered along the route of parade to prevent horses from fall- 
ing with their riders. 

The Police Department efforts were endorsed by the Com- 
mittee and resulted in such details of special officers and 
detectives as kept the District entirely free from disorder 
and crime. There were no professional thieves who visited 

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the District, no house robberies and no maraudings to serve 
as unpleasant reminders. There were no disasters beyond 
those incident to the cold and high winds. 

The east front of the Capitol, the Avenue, with its thou- 
sands of spectators, and the reviewing stands were all min- 
utely inspected and supervised from a police standpoint by 
Public Order Committeemen, detectives, uniformed men and 
special officers, and but two complaints of disrespectful con- 
duct on the part of the several hundred men in authority 
were made to the Chairman, and they were of an insignifi- 
cant character. This is a record never before made. 

Chief Engineer Wagner, the Chairman of the Sub-Com- 
mittee on Fire Protection, several days prior, during and 
after the fourth of March, had thirty firemen within the 
ball room, looking to the safety of the decorations, light 
property and the building from fire. Capt. T. O'Connor and 
Capt. H. C. Egloff were in immediate command, super- 
vised by Chief Wagner and Battalion Chief J. Kelliher. 
Fire hose for the standpipes, thirty-three fire extinguishers, 
twenty-four force pumps with buckets, hooks and pick-axes 
were provided for emergencies. 

A set of rules were adopted for the firemen and 
signals arranged so as not to give unnecessary alarm to 
the public at any time. The Chief inspected buildings where 
troops were quartered as to their safety, placed firemen 
in the reviewing stands and a fire patrol was kept up along 
the business quarter during the fourth of March. This feat- 
ure of protection was thorough, the attire, attitude and 
action of the force being exceptionally fine during the entire 
period. 

The captains of the sub-committees assigned to the Union 
Station each reported that all members detailed reported for 
duty at the hours for which they were assigned and that 
they exercised great patience and courtesy and won the com- 
mendation of countless visitors by the many good offices 
they performed. 

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The Captain assigned to the sub-committee to have mer- 
chants and others along the route of parade keep the side- 
walks as free as possible from boxes, barrels and other 
obstructions, reported that a thorough co-operation was had 
and the committeemen were generous in giving their time 
and influence to this commendable end, which made the occa- 
sion more distinctive than ever in this feature of improve- 
ment. 

The Committee on Public Order takes this occasion to 
refer to the invaluable assistance rendered by the War De- 
partment in placing at its disposal the twenty-five ambu- 
lances completely equipped and a detail of cavalrymen who 
acted as outriders in this service. Notwithstanding the men 
were given opportunity for refreshment, the weather condi- 
tions were such as to make the duty in many respects 
difficult. 

The Committee returns its acknowledgments to Captain 
H. F. Pipes, of the United States General Hospital at 
Washington Barracks, and to Lieutenant L. R. Partridge, 
U. S. A., of Fort Sheridan, 111., for their active and courte- 
ous efforts to make this co-operative service replete in every 
detail. 

The following instructions were promulgated for the 
guidance of those concerned together with printed lists of 
ambulance and wagon locations : 

Special Instructions for Special and Additional Police- 
men to be given by Captains and other Commanding Officers 
in addition to other orders respecting their duties : 

1. Special and Additional Privates possess all the police 
powers conferred upon members of the Regular Police 
Force, except that Special Privates can exercise it on the 
premises only for zvhich they are appointed, while Additional 
Privates may be assigned to beats and have an unrestricted 
commission. All are subject to the regulations governing 
the Metropolitan Police Force. 

2. They shall prevent and detect crime and maintain peace 
and good order at all times. 

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3. Additional Privates shall be assigned to duty as may 
be required, on beats or posts, and shall obey and respect the 
orders and directions of Superior Officers and members of 
the Regular Force, detailed as Sergeants. 

4. While on duty they shall not neglect the work in hand, 
nor enter bar-rooms or places where liquor may be had, 
except in line of duty, and a violation of this rule will be 
followed by immediate removal. 

5. The drinking of intoxicants or the appearance for duty 
under the influence of liquor will be cause for summary 
discharge. 

6. Courteous and respectful conduct is expected on their 
part, but firmness should be shown at all times. 

7. The baton is to be used for self-defense, and unneces- 
sary maltreatment of prisoners or others will not be toler- 
ated. Bear in mind that visitors are our guests and treat 
them accordingly. 

8. They shall remember that they are under orders, and 
therefore be prompt in reporting on and off duty. 

9. They shall read all printed instructions carefully and 
answer all questions civilly. 

10. When called upon to restore order, a request shall 
first be made for such, and if not effective, a command in the 
name of the District of Columbia shall be given, and then, 
if necessary, force should be used and arrests made of the 
responsible party or parties. 

11. They shall not argue questions and shall refrain from 
talking back, preserve their temper and pay no attention to 
aside remarks, and thereby avoid trouble. 

12. They shall aid the sick and injured by taking them to 
the nearest drug store or by calling over a 'phone to the near- 
est hospital. Along the line of parade. Red Cross indicates 
where ambulances and physicians may be found. The re- 
verse of this card gives location of 'phones and ambulances. 
Direct them specially as to the location of ambulances and 
patrol wagons on the 4th of March. 

13. When on a beat, they shall give close attention to 
doors, windows, alley-ways and rear entrances. The appre- 
hension of a burglar, thief or other person guilty of a crime 
will entitle the Special or Additional Private making the 
arrest to proper reward for meritorious service. 

14. It does not speak well for an officer to be seen talking 
with citizens or others. He should patrol his beat slowly 

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and closely. Very often while the policeman talks, the thief 
is at work. 

15. They should be instructed as to the general orders for 
the day and understand that drivers for distinguished guests, 
cabinet officers and foreign representatives wear a round, 
red, white and blue card badge signed by the Superintendent 
of Police which permits them to drive through and across 
the route of parade. 

16. Pedestrians wearing red, white and blue passes, signed 
by the Superintendent, Avill be permitted to cross from curb 
to curb. 

17. Familiarize Special and Additional Privates with pub- 
lic hack rates so that they will be enabled to determine dis- 
putes. 

18. Have regular members of the force go to the assist- 
ance of Special or Additional Privates, when summoned. 

19. It is to a man's credit if he makes a good record as 
an Additional Private. They should be reminded that they 
are under careful supervision and inspection. 

20. Additional Privates anyw^here should be prompt to 
offer information as to location of streets to strangers and 
visitors and should pay particular attention to prevent them 
from being imposed upon by runners and drivers, who often 
misrepresent prices and distances. Disorder and the sur- 
rounding of strangers and visitors by runners must not be 
permitted. 

Doctor D. P. Hickling, in order to facilitate the Medical 
Hospital Corps' work, selected Doctor George M. Kober and 
Doctor G. L. Magruder as Vice-Chairmen of his service, 
with Doctor P. C. Hunt as Secretary, and there were four 
sub-committees on — Hospital at the Pension Office Building, 
Hospital at the Union Station, Inspection of Quarters and 
Ambulance Stations, in charge of Doctor E. W. Reisinger, 
Doctor W. P. Reeves, Doctor William C. Gwynn and Doctor 
Frank E. Gibson, respectively. 

The division on Ambulance Stations cared for 81 cases, 
10 surgical and 71 medical, 53 of whom were males and 28 
females. This im^x^rtant work was conducted under the 
most unfavorable circumstances, owing to the extreme 



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weather conditions, which necessitated many of the physi- 
cians using parts of the parade route in hastening urgent 
cases to the Emergency Hospital, instead of making the 
longer runs against inclement and windy weather. The 
heavy snow was a great impediment to making longer dis- 
tance trips. Suffering was materially relieved by this obli- 
gatory change in contemplated arrangements. Some of the 
Red Cross tents were blown over, requiring the establish- 
ment of stations at the District Building, State, War and 
Navy Department and Marine Hospital Building. All sta- 
tions reported cases treated excepting number 19, and there 
were on duty over seventy physicians, members of the Com- 
mittee. The Red Cross contingent I must commend as a 
most valuable auxiliary, they furnishing complete relief 
equipments at each station as well as uniformed nurses, the 
latter braving the weather for duty, which was efficient. 
The stretchermen deserve praise for excellent service. 

The hospital at the Pension Office Building opened for 
business March 4th at 9:00 o'clock a. m., and closed on 
March 7th, at 11 :00 o'clock a. m., and in that period treated 
24 cases. The physician in charge was, in a measure, disap- 
pointed in not having freedom from sound and light, so 
essential where the sick are to be cared for, and would have 
been pleased with more decorations about the place, but we 
are all aware of the difficulties that were encountered by 
delay. 

The medical gentlemen express appreciation of the good 
offices of Lieutenant Judge, of the police force, and Mr. Gra- 
ham, of the Inaugural Committee, for attentions extended to 
the hospital and for refreshments provided for the nurses. 

The hospital at the Terminal Station, established through 
the courtesy of Superintendent Keppel, and supported by the 
Red Cross, was in operation from March 1st to midnight of 
March 7th, and in that time 105 cases were given medical 
attention. The ranking physician. Doctor Hickling, and 
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Red Cross nurses and stretcher bearers their sincere appre- 
ciation for a duty well performed under trying and pro- 
longed conditions. 

The assignment to inspect quarters made a thorough can- 
vass of hotels and buildings, railway and Pullman cars, num- 
bering twenty-five, which were gone over, with good venti- 
lation and perfect sanitary conditions in view, and rendered 
medical treatment in four instances. 

In all 214 cases were reported as cared for by the Medical 
Hospital Committee without expense to the Committee ex- 
cept for printing and a small quantity of medical supplies. 

The physicians gladly and energetically responded to this 
call, and they evidenced that devotion and attention to the 
work which has at all times characterized their labors in 
times of distress and need. They were forced by the season 
to undergo many discomforts and labored against many dis- 
advantages but in the end their important charge was splen- 
didly completed. 

I desire to express my thanks and regards to the Chairman 
of this branch of the service for his co-operation and assist- 
ance and my appreciation to Doctors Gibson, Magruder, 
Reeves, Reisinger and Gwynn for their energetic and able 
professional directions and services. 

In this cause Miss Mabel Boardman, of the Red Cross 
Society, rendered early, intelligent and continued aid to 
make the arrangements for the care of the sick and suffering 
complete. 

Every effort was made, and it appears they were success- 
ful, to maintain the route of parade, and particularly the 
Court of Honor, free of obstructions, and ''markers" for the 
guidance of organizations were provided at the suggestion 
of General John A. Johnston, Chief of Staff, whose ever 
kindly co-operation contributed largely to the success of the 
Committee, and at the dismissal location of the parade, every 
advice and assistance was rendered by your Chairman look- 
ing to the expedition and comfort of the thousands who had 

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to march to their respective places of assembly under much 
discomfort from weather conditions. There was not a sin- 
gle hitch or a halt through congestion or premature dis- 
bandment. 

Members of the Committee, at the general meeting on 
February 27, 1909, responded to the number of three hun- 
dred and thirty-one, and received their instructions, not only 
as committeemen, but under the law relating to police 
powers, police authority having been conferred upon each 
member, the oath of office being administered by the Chair- 
man, and printed commissions, laws and suggestions were 
issued to each one of them. 

The Committee work was an improvement over former 
years, and the police arrangements were carried into effect 
without loss or injury to any of the thousands interested. 

Headquarters was established at the ball and your Chair- 
man and his assistants departed at the conclusion of the 
event. There were no thefts or embarrassments reported 
and but few lost articles, most of them being found and 
returned to the owners. 

Ample precautions w^ere had looking to the security of the 
distinguished guests going to, while at, and while retiring 
from the Pension Building. 

I desire to convey to you my thanks for your confidence 
in honoring me with the Chairmanship of the Committee on 
Public Order and for your ever courteous and expeditious 
disposition of affairs requiring your action, and, your untir- 
ing secretary by his generous attentions made a difficult task 
much easier than it would have been otherwise. 

When the storm of wind and snow became furious after 
midnight of March third, your Chairman remained on duty 
and at about 3.00 o'clock a. m., with telephonic communica- 
tion interrupted, had the authorities charged with clearing 
the Avenue and scattering sand thereon, called for work 
looking to the safety of the parade route. 

I know that you will join with me in according to the 



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patriotic, intelligent and public spirited citizens who com- 
posed the Committee, and the officers and meml)ers of the 
Metropolitan Police Force, a full measure of credit, for 
labors performed successfully under trying circumstances. 

I respectfully beg leave to present a copy of a communica- 
tion from Brigadier General John A. Johnston, U. S. A.. 
Chief of Staff, for the inauguration, together with duplicates 
of passes issued for all purposes during that period. 

Washington, ]\Iarcli 6, 1909. 

Major Richard Sylvester^ 
Police Headquarters, 
Washington, D. C. 

My Dear Major : 

Before severing my official connection with the office of 
the Grand Marshal of the Inaugural Parade, March 4, 1909, 
I take great pleasure in expressing to you the debt this office 
owes you for your always generous and efficient co-opera- 
tion in all related matters that had so much to do with 
the successful organization, assembly, movement and dismis- 
sal of the largest military and civic inaugural parade with 
which I have been associated since 1893, and this under such 
disorganizing influences of blizzard weather, demoralized 
transportation, means of shelter and subsistence, etc., etc., 
the like of which has not obtained since 1889, and for your 
all-night vigilence and forethought in awakening the street 
cleaner at an hour sufficiently early for clearing the heavy 
fall of snow off the Avenue from the White House to the 
Capitol and providing sand to be scattered along the route 
of parade, all of wdiich is deserving of the highest commen- 
dation. 

I have the honor to be, 

V^ery truly yours, 
(Signed) John A. Johnston. 
Brigadier General, Chief of Staff." 

Respectfully sul^mitted, 

Richard Sylvester, 
Chainuan Committee on Public Order. 



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Thomas P. Morgan, Chairman 
William T. Galliher, First Vice-Chairman 
Walter H. Klopfer, Second Vice-Chairman 

Alan O. Clephane_, Secretary 



Mr. Edward J. Stellwagen, 

Chairman Inaugural Coviinittee, 
Washington, D. C. 

Dear Sir: 

I have the honor to submit the following report as Chair- 
man of the Committee on Civic Organizations. 

This Committee was promptly organized with Mr. Wil- 
liam T. Galliher, First Vice-Chairman; Mr. Walter H. 
Klopfer, Second Vice-Chairman; and Mr. Alan O. Cle- 
phane, Secretary, with headquarters at No. 1335 F Street, 
N. W. 

Invitations were extended to all organizations that par- 
ticipated in the inaugural parade of 1905 and also to numer- 
ous bodies that notified us of their desire to participate. 



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Eighty-two acceptances were received and brought to Wash- 
ington about ten thousand, six hundred and thirty-three men. 

The Committee extended an invitation to each Senator 
and Representative of the Sixtieth Congress, to nominate 
an aide to ride in the Civic Grand Division, which resulted 
in the naming of one hundred and twenty-seven aides. 

In constituting my staff, I caused to be issued General 
Orders No. 1, on February 15th, copy of which is attached 
hereto. 

Inaugural Parade, March 4, 1909. 

Headquarters of the Chief Marshal, 

Civic Grand Division. 

Washington, D. C, February 15, 1909. 

General Orders, 

No. 1. 

The Chief Marshal announces the following appoint- 
ments upon his staff : 

Chief of Staff_____ _W. T. Galliher 

Adjutant General William F. Gude 

Assistant Adjutant General- -Walter H. Klopfer 

Judge Advocate General Alan O. Clephane 

Inspector General Charles H. L. Johnston 

Quartermaster General James L. Marshall 

Commissary General George M. Hanson 

Chief Aide Charles F. Cummins 

Further appointments will be announced later as occasion 
may recjuire. 



Pursuant to General Orders No. 4 of the Grand Marshal 
of the Inaugural Parade, on FelDruary 27, 1909, I caused to 

be issued General Orders No. 2, as per copy attached hereto, 

which records that the Civic Grand Division, commanded by 

a Chief Marshal with Staff and Aides, was composed of 

fifty-six organizations, and consisted of three divisions with 

three brigades in each division, with division and brigade 

commanders, attended by their respective staffs and aides. 

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The inclement weather prevented many members from 
parading, and the experiences of the Civic Organizations on 
that day prompt me to join in the universal hope that the 
Congress of the United States will enact a law which will 
change the inaugural day. 

It is with pleasure that I bear testimony to the courteous 
treatment extended me by Major General J. Franklin Bell, 
Chief of Staff, U. S. A., Grand Marshal, also to Brig. Gen. 
John A. Johnston, U. S. A., the able Chief of Staff of the 
Grand Marshal. 

To Mr. William T. Galliher, Chief of Staff of the Chief 
Marshal of the Civic Grand Division, is due all praise for his 
arduous and successful labor in the assembly of the Civic 
Grand Divisions and to Mr. Walter H. Klopfer, Second 
Vice-Chairman, and to Mr. Alan O. Clephane, Secretary, I 
am under obligations for their continued efforts in promot- 
ing the welfare of this Committee. 

Then again, to all the Marshals of Divisions and Brig- 
ades, their Staffs, their Aides, and the organizations, great 
credit is due and is hereby acknowledged for the public and 
patriotic spirit they displayed in participating in the inau- 
gural parade on a day so inclement as to cause physcial suf- 
fering to every one who had to stand or march in the snow 
covered streets. 

The sum of five hundred dollars was allotted for the use 

of this Committee, of which amount $445.80 was expended 

as follows : 

Dec. 26, 1908. Postage $25.00 

Dec. 31, 1908. L. E. Tibbetts, clerk, salary 50.00 

Jan. 6, 1909. W. F. Roberts Co., stationery 18.00 

Jan. 30, 1909. L. E. Tibbetts, clerk, salary 50.00 

Feb. 19, 1909. Postage 25.00 

Feb. 27, 1909. L. E. Tibbetts, clerk, salary 50.00 

Feb. 2^, 1909. E. D. Williston, for clerk, postage, 

etc., for Colored Division 50.00 

Mar. I, 1909. Postage, messenger service, and 

typewriting supplies i5-00 

Carried forward $283.00 

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rward $283.00 

W. F. Roberts Co., stationery 16.25 

Gibson Bros., printing General 

Orders No. 2 37-20 

W. F. Roberts Co., stationery 11.25 

Western Union Telegraph Co., 

telegrams 7.03 

Joseph Haas, 56 card numbers 7.00 

Marion G. Barker, stenographer.. 5.00 

Edward W. Cady, clerk 16.67 

L. E. Tibbetts, clerk, salary 15.00 

Wm. H. Dyer, posts 5.60 

Transferred to Grand Marshal's 

office for maps and printing 39-50 

Yawman Erbe Co., cards and 

folders 2.30 



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Feb. 


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Mar. 


2, 


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Feb. 


27, 


1909. 


Mar. 


2, 


1909. 


Mar. 


8, 


1909. 


Mar. 


8, 


1909- 


Mar. 


8, 


1909. 


Mar. 


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Mar. 


9, 


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Mar. 


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$445-80 



To you, Mr. Chairman, this Committee, as well as its 
Chairman, extend hearty felicitations on the brilliant success 
of your administration of the affairs incident to the 1909 In- 
augural, and I thank you for your consideration, courtesy 
and assistance during the three months devoted to the prep- 
aratory work. 

Respectfully submitted, 

Thos. p. Morgan, 

Chairman Committee on Civic Organizations. 



Summary of Expenses. 

Clerical services $186.67 

Postage 55.00 

Stationery and typewriting supplies 52.80 

Allotted to Colored Division for clerical work and 

stationery 50.00 

Printing 37.20 

Posts and cards for parade 12.60 

Telegrams and messenger service 12.03 

Transferred to Grand Marshal's office for maps 

and printing _ 39-50 

$445.80 



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Olnmmttte^ on Parks an& H^tit^fatng S^tattbB 

Edward J. Stellwagen, Esq., 

Chairman Inaugural Committee, 
Washington, D. C . 

My Dear Sir: 

I am enclosing herewith detailed statement of the receipts 
and expenditures of the Committee on Parks and Reviewing 
Stands. From this statement it will be seen that the total 
receipts of this Committee from all sources are $32,237.95. 
After deducting therefrom expenses of every nature there 
remains a net profit of $16,957.80. 

During the Inaugural Ceremonies of 1901 I had the honor 
of being Chairman of this Committee. At that time the 
Committee recommended the adoption of an entirely new 
plan for providing for the seating capacity of citizens desir- 
ing to witness the Inaugural Parade. Prior thereto it had 
been the custom to lease the privileges of erecting all 
stands with the exception of the President's Reviewing 
Stand, which was built and decorated at the expense of the 



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Inaugural Committee. The plan suggested, however, ap- 
plied only to the erection of the Lafayette Reviewing Stand, 
which was built under the supervision and control of this 
Committee. The idea was that the profit to be derived from 
the sale of seats upon the Lafayette Reviewing Stand and 
that derived from the sale of privileges to erect other stands 
to be located on reservations on Pennsylvania Avenue, would 
pay all the expenses of this Committee, including the cost of 
the erection of the President's Reviewing Stand. The out- 
come of this plan, which was vigorously opposed by some 
members of the Committee at that time because of the 
risk attending such an undertaking justified the course 
adopted. The total receipts in 1901 from all sources were 
$15,793.00, and the expenditures $15,922.77, thus the re- 
ceipts not only paid for the erection of the President's Stand 
and the Lafayette Stand, but came within a few dollars 
of paying for the entire cost of the Court of Honor, which 
at that time was erected by this Committee and introduced as 
a novelty. 

In 1905 it was my privilege to lead this same Committee 
and the general policy pursued in 1901 was carried out at the 
Inauguration of President Roosevelt, with the exception that 
the Court of Honor was under the control of the Committee 
on Street Decorations. The receipts on this occasion were 
$26,480.00 and the disbursements $14,679.13, thus leaving a 
net profit of $11,801.82, as against a net profit of $16,957.80, 
as shown by the statement herewith enclosed, for the Inau- 
guration of President Taft. 

The results accomplished by this Committee in the way of 
solving the problem of providing for the seating capacity 
of citizens desiring to witness the Inaugural Parade, in my 
opinion, have demonstrated the wisdom of the plan 
and will materially assist those who may have charge of 
the same work in the future inaugurations in bringing about 
still further improvements. It is to be hoped, however, that 
some method may be devised whereby the place for the re^ 

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viewing of the Inaugural Parade may be changed so as to do 
away with the building of any stands along Pennsylvania 
Avenue, either in front of public or private buildings or on 
public reservations. It is, in my opinion, unfortunate that 
such a reservation as Lafayette Square should be almost cov- 
ered with a Reviewing Stand, which, no matter how well 
built, can only mar the appearance of the street at a time 
when our public buildings and reservations should be open to 
full view, that visitors may be able to see the city under nor- 
mal conditions and unembarrassed by structures of the kind 
indicated above. 

In my report to the Inaugural Committee of 1905, a plan 
was submitted which contemplated the erection of an amphi- 
theater on the ellipse in the rear of the White House. This 
plan, while it met with the cordial support of a majority of 
the Inaugural Committee, could not be carried out on account 
of objections which were raised to the lay of the land sur- 
rounding the approaches to the ellipse. It is hoped that at 
some time in the near future a parade ground of sufficient 
size, conveniently located to the White House, may be 
provided. 

I cannot close this report without expressing my apprecia- 
tion of the able assistance rendered the Committee by Mr. 
Arthur Peter and Mr. Walter C. Clephane, Vice-Chairmen ; 
Mr. John Joy Edson, Jr., Secretary; Mr. LeRoy Mark, who 
had charge of the Sub-Committee for the sale of tickets, and 
Mr. Appleton P. Clark, Jr., who rendered valuable services 
as architect of the Committee. 

Very respectfully yours, 

John B. Larner, 

Chairman Committee on Parks and Reviezving Stands. 



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Final Statement of 

Committee on Parks and Reviewing Stands. 

1909 

Jan. 14 VV. F. Roberts Co., Printing $5-75 

29 W. F. Roberts Co., Printing 4.00 

Feb. I Henry A. Farnham, Blue Prints 2.00 

4 Washington Post Co., Advt 2.25 

4 Washington Herald Co., Advt 2.04 

15 Washington Times Co., Advt 2.70 

23 Globe Ticket Co., Printing 55-05 

National Electric Supply Co., Supplies-- 3.75 

27 James L. Parsons, a/c Erecting stands- 3,500.00 

Mch. 9 James L. Parsons, a/c Erecting stands- 7,500.00 

Washington Post Co., Advt. 3.25 

Washington Times Co., Advt. 3.75 

Evening Star Newspaper Co., Advt 4.95 

10 Lamb & Tilden, Rubber Stamps 1.30 

Copenhaver, Stationery .75 

Byron S. Adams, Printing 1.50 

LeRoy Mark — Insurance 32.75 

Arthur Pe,ter — Expense account 3.75 

Lansburgh Furniture Co., Folding Chairs 1,040.40 

Bailey & Brother 28.00 

James L. Parsons, a/c Stands 46.36 

12 John B. Earner — Expense account 22.65 

Thaddeus F. Robbins, Services 180.00 

Law Reporter Printing Co., Printing 2.00 

13 Henry E. Cooper, Services 63.00 

Ruth M. Oberly, Refund 8.00 

Washington Herald Co., Advt. 4.80 

15 W. F. Roberts Co., Printing 10.00 

Jesse C. Brooke, Services 90.00 

16 Appleton P. Clark, Jr. — Expense account 48.00 
S. Kann & Sons Co., Decorations 253.00 

17 T. Arthur Smith, Ushers 28.00 

Henry A. Farnham, Blue Prints 3.90 

Washington Florist Co., Flowers 2.50 

James L. Parsons, in full erection of 

stands 2,020.00 

Total $14,980.15 



Cash receipts paid C. F. Norment, Treasurer — $32,237.95 
Refund of deposits due purchasers of privileges- 300.00 



$31,937-95 
Expenditures as above 14,980.15 



Net profit $16,957.80 



John B. Earner, 

Chairman. 

Amount received for privileges on South Side of 
Pennsylvania Avenue and included in above 
receipts $1,787.00 

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Mr. Edward J. Stellwagen, 

Chairman Inaugural Coinmittee, 
Washington, D. C. 

Dear Sir : 

HE following is a summary of 
the work accomplished by your 
Committee on Street Decora- 
tions, of which I had the 
honor to be Chairman. 

There were five divisions of 
my committee, each assigned 
to different work. The divi- 
sion with E. W. Donn, Jr., at 
the head had the work of de- 
signing and making working drawings and specifications 
for the Court of Honor. 

The division on supervision, with W. J. Marsh at the head, 
had the work of making preliminary forms of contracts and 
the supervision of the erection of the Court of Honor. 

The division of publicity, with Allen D. Al])ert at the 
head, kept the public informed as to our objects and aims, 




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and through the medium of the pubhc press, endeavor to in- 
fluence residents to decorate in harmony with the color 
scheme decided on by the Committee. 

The division on decoration of the Union Station Plaza, 
Dr. F. B. Loring at the head, had to do with the difficult 
problem of putting in order and decorating the Plaza. 

The division on decorating Pennsylvania Avenue, Charles 
A. Douglas at the head, had the task of enlisting the co-oper- 
ation of the merchants and occupants of buildings along the 
line of march of the Inaugural Parade to adopt the decora- 
tive scheme of the Committee. 

The design of the Court of Honor was determined on 
after the most careful consideration Of various schemes, 
and great credit should be given to Mr. Ward Brown and 
Mr. M. L. Leisenring for valuable suggestions. 

Mr. W. J. Marsh, who had charge of superintendence, 
and Mr. W. I. Deming and Mr. C. W. Somerville, the En- 
gineers of their divisions, strove to make the structure so 
strong that it would withstand the worst conditions of wind 
and weather. Their work showed for itself on the 4th of 
March, for a more severe blizzard has seldom visited this 
city. The Court of Honor, however, remained intact, and 
but little the worse for the severe strain it had been sub- 
jected to. 

The Union Station Plaza was decorated by three rows of 
trees (nursery grown spruce) brought from New Hamp- 
shire. These trees were carefully planted about the outer 
circumference of the circle of the Plaza ; the result was en- 
tirely satisfactory. 

It may be proper to state here that in the very beginning 
it was decided to encourage the most liberal use of the 
National emblem flying free from a mast or pole, or grouped 
in trophies, but to discourage as far as lay in our power its 
misuse as draperies, portieres, fans and pin wheels plastered 
on flat walls as a mere decoration. The Committee selected 
green and white. Natural greens, such as laurel leaves, and 

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white unbleached mushn were suggested as flat wall decora- 
tions or as a background for fluttering flags. Where this 
idea was carried out the effect was very good, but few peo- 
ple cared to take the trouble to go in for this to any great 
extent. This was the color scheme of the Court of Honor. 
It happened that the fall of snow made it the color scheme 
of the Union Station Plaza as well. 

As this report will be printed and remain in the archives 
and be read by Chairmen of future committees, it may be 
well to state here and for their benefit some of the difficulties 
we had to contend with, and recommend for their work. 

The Inaugural Committee this year decided to adopt the 
recommedation of the Committee on Street Decorations, to 
relieve that Committee of the burden of caring for the quan- 
tities of flags, usually borrowed from the United States 
Government, and loaned to whosoever wanted them. The 
borrowing of these flags and the loaning of them to private 
parties entailed an enormous amount of work and financial 
responsibility in the past, without a corresponding amount of 
good derived. By declining to borrow the flags, if thereby 
the Inaugural Committee was to be burdened with the ex- 
pense and responsibility of handling them, and they could 
not be handled without considerable expense to the Inaugu- 
ral Committee, none were borrow^ed. 

The public accepted this attitude, went right ahead and 
decorated their buildings, using more flags than had ever 
been used before, the Committee having no trouble at all. 

The Inaugural Committee, through its Committee on Re- 
viewing Stands, issued no permits for the erection of stands 
unless agreement was made to conform to certain structural 
and architectural lines and the decorative scheme of this 
Committee. The Committee on Street Decorations should 
be empowered to do the same thing with people owning 
buildings on the line of march. If they had the power to 
refuse a permit to decorate unless the decorations conformed 
to some pre-arranged scheme, I think the people wo^dd fall 

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into line and we would have uniformity on Pennsylvania 
Avenue, a thing to be greatly hoped for. 

The matter could be approached on the legal side because 
decorations are projections beyond the building line and any 
projection beyond the building line immediately comes 
within the authority of the government and subject to its 
approval or disapproval. This is a matter for future com- 
mittees to take up and carry through. 

Very respectfully, 

Edward W. Donn, Jr., 
Chairman Committee on Street Decorations. 



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iJlarkmg pottttH nf Iftatnrtr 3ttt^r^at 

William P. Van Wickle, Chairman 

William V. Cox, Vice-Chairman 

Dr. Marcus Benjamin, Historian 

Edward T. Bates, Secretary 

Arthur F. Bauer, Corresponding Secretary 

Mr. Edward J. Stellwagen, 

Chairman Inaugural Committee, ipop, 

Nezv Willard Hotel, Washington, D. C. 

Dear Sir : 

As Chairman of the Committee on Historic Sites I have 
the honor to submit herewith my report, together with a 
statement of its expenditures. 

The Committee held two meetings, both in the New 
Willard Hotel, each of which was largely attended, and 
great interest was manifested. At the first meeting, held on 
January 5, four sub-committees and an Executive Com- 
mittee were authorized and the Chairman and members of 
each designated. 

The four sub-committees were : 

1. To Examine and Pass on Points of Historic Interest, 

Dr. Marcus Benjamin, Chairman. 

2. On Character, Design, and Material of Marker, 

Mr. Frederick D. Owen, Chairman. 



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3. To Locate and Mark Sites Selected, 

Mr. Henry W. Samson, Chairman. 

4. On Compiling and Printing Catalogue, 

Mr. John C. Proctor, Chairman. 

The Executive Committee was composed of the Chairman 
and Vice-Chairman of the Committee and the Chairmen of 
the four sub-committees. Subsequent to the meeting of 
January 5, all matters pertaining to the work of the Com- 
mittee were referred to and acted upon by the appropriate 
sub-committee in co-operation with the Executive Com- 
mittee. 

This distribution of work proved advantageous in practice 
and at the second and final meeting of the committee, held 
on February 27, the reports of the sub-committees were 
unanimously adopted. These were essentially as follows : 

1. In addition to the points passed upon at the last inaugu- 
ration. Dr. Benjamin reported that numerous statements 
and suggestions concerning new localities had been received, 
and that these had been carefully considered by his sub- 
committee, resulting in the presentation of a larger number 
of sites than before. In considering these sites it should be 
remembered that the sub-committee acted largely in a judi- 
cial capacity, that is to say, it considered the evidence pre- 
sented rather than attempting to investigate in any exhaus- 
tive manner the material submitted. Nearly two hundred 
points of interest in and near this city were located and 
approved by this sub-committee. 

2. Mr. Owen reported that the marker adopted by his 
committee was of wood and sheet metal, oblong, painted in 
imitation of bronze, with chocolate colored lettering with a 
shield in the national colors near the upper border, bearing 
a number to correspond with the catalogue number on the 
point marked. This marker he believed was the most artistic 
ever used on a similar occasion. It can be duplicated in 
bronze if wanted for use as a permanent marker for 
about $35. 

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3. Under the chairmanship of Mr. Henry W. Samson, the 
Sub-Committee to Locate and Mark Sites Selected, located 
and marked about one hundred and seventy-live points of 
historic interest in and near the city. While the work was 
in progress a helpful spirit of co-operation was manifested 
by the officials and citizens that greatly assisted the mem- 
bers of this sub-committee. 

4. With reference to compiling and printing catalogues, 
Mr. Proctor's report showed that about ten thousand cata- 
logues in booklet form, of twenty-four pages each, were 
printed and distributed free of cost to visitors and other 
applicants. Two editions were printed. The last edition 
contained an index which was compiled by Mr. Wm. W. 
Bishop, of the Library of Congress, which was a feature 
that added greatly to convenience for reference. 

At the last meeting of the Committee a vote of thanks to 
yourself for courtesies was adopted; also a resolution was 
unanimously passed requesting the appointment of a com- 
mittee of seven members to examine into the advisability of 
forming a permanent organization to take up and carry on 
the work of this and former temporary committees of like 
character so that points of historic interest in the District 
might be permanently, properly, and authoritatively marked. 
This will be done and, if deemed advisable, a meeting will be 
called to act upon the report. 

It is a pleasure to place on record my appreciation of the 
interest shown in the work of the committee by the Wash- 
ington papers. The Post, Star, Times, and Herald freely 
opened their columns to communications from citizens who 
Were interested in the subject, thus placing at the disposal of 
the sub-committees information that might not otherwise 
have been obtained. It is gratifying to report that the inau- 
gural editions of the Washington papers contained the entire 
list of historic sites reported by the committee. 



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The total disbursements of the Committee on Historic 
Sites amounted to $371.54, as follows: 

Lippman Printing Co. $174.00 

Washington Wood Working Co. 83.00 

O'Bryon Sign Co. 72.80 

Arthur F. Bauer, sundries 41-74 

$371-54 

Thanking you and the other officers and members of the 
Inaugural Committee for co-operation, assistance, and uni- 
form courtesies, I am, 

Very respectfully yours, 

W. P. Van Wickle, 
Chairman Committee on Historic Sites. 



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2J^p0rt of (UtimmxtU^ an JUumtnation 

Bernard R. Green, Chairman 
W. C. Allen, V ice-Chairman 
Philander Betts, Secretary 

Washington, D. C, May 4, 1909. 

Mr. Edward J. Stellwagen, 

Chairman Inaugural Committee, 
Washington, D. C. 

Dear Sir : 

I have the honor to render the following report of the part 
taken by the Committee on Illumination in the public attrac- 
tions and displays organized and carried out by the General 
Committee, on the occasion of the inauguration of President 
William H .Taft and Vice-President James S. Sherman. 

The membership of the Committee was almost wholly 
outside of the Inaugural Committee proper. 

The function of the Committee was decided to be the 
suggestion and execution of designs of exterior and street 
illuminations, and accordingly the first proceeding was a con- 
sideration of streets, avenues, parks and buildings on and 



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near the line from the Capitol to the White House, which 
was to be the route of parade and naturally the area of at- 
traction to the multitude of visitors. 

For obvious reasons the ruling principle adopted was con- 
centration and excellence of undertaking and performance, 
rather than magnitude and diffusion, to the end that the visi- 
tor should carry away definite beautiful impressions. This 
was accomplished, with the limited available funds, in all of 
the following seven illuminations. 

A. Pennsylvania Avenue, cross festooned with white elec- 
tric lights from First Street to Fifteenth Street and New 
York Avenue. 

B. The dome, lantern, and figure of the Goddess of Lib- 
erty on the Capitol. 

C. Peace Monument, at First Street end of the Avenue, 
canopied with water spray. 

D. Post Of^ce Belfry. 

E. New white marble Municipal Building. 

F. Special displays by owners on private buildings along 
the Avenue. 

G. Cornice and pediment lines of the Treasury Building. 

The Committee also supplied the electric current for the 
illumination of the Court of Honor in front of the White 
House, from Fifteenth to Seventeenth Streets. 

Scheme A consisted of about fifty quadruple festoons, 
with peaks thirty feet above the pavement, of eighty 4-candle 
power lamps spaced one and a half feet apart, hung at inter- 
vals of approximately one hundred and fifty feet, comprising 
about 4,000 lamps in all. The effect was a perspective can- 
opy a mile and a quarter long, shutting out of the more dis- 
tant vistas the side lights on the buildings and producing a 
thoroughly beautiful and grand result. It was especially 
brilliant and memorable on the night of March 3d during the 

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heavy rain, when the hght was mirrored in the wet pave- 
ment. 

Scheme B was produced by two 30-inch search lights 
loaned by the War Department with a detail of ten artillery- 
men for the purpose. The lights were located on the two 
ventilating air towers in the west grounds of the Capitol, 
and the effect was most brilliant — the white dome floating 
beautifully against the dark sky. 

Scheme C was a canopy of water from a fountain spray 
behind the heads of the main figures, lighted by constantly 
changing colored rays projected from three 12-inch search 
lights about the base of the monument. The effect was very 
attractive and successful. 

Scheme D was well carried out by the use of Cooper- 
Hewitt mercury lamps placed in the belfry. 

Scheme E consisted of six 8-inch theatre spot lights pro- 
jected from buildings across the streets, brilliantly illumi- 
nating the white marble architecture. The effect was en- 
hanced by the lighting of all the front rooms from the in- 
terior fixtures. 

Scheme F consisted of festoons of electric lights decorat- 
ing and outlining the architecture of many of the business 
and other buildings. 

Scheme G consisted of lines of lights entirely around the 
cornice and pediments of the Treasury Building. 

The total cost of these several illuminations was as 
follows : 

Avenue illumination $3,337-45 

Peace monument fountain 362.73 

Capitol dome 20.00 

Municipal building _-_ 300.00 

Treasury building 43500 

Electric current for Court of Honor 536.00 

Total $4,991.18 

Nearly the entire Committee rendered sendee as members 
by attending meetings, taking part in the discussions and 

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advising as to plans and details, while a considerable number 
took personal part in the labors attending the actual execu- 
tion of the work of installation. Among these who are to be 
conspicuously mentioned and thanked are Vice-Chairman 
W. C. Allen, who had charge of the illumination of the 
Avenue; Mr. W. E. Bleo, who assisted Mr. Allen on the 
Avenue, and especially looked after the Peace Monument 
fountain ; Captain William Kelly, for the illumination of the 
Capitol and other public buildings ; Messrs. C. P. Gliem and 
D. W. Harding, for the illumination of the Capitol, and 
Mr. P. L. Dougherty for the illumination of the Treasury 
Building. 

I would further and especially commend the excellent ser- 
vice of Mr. W. A. McFarland, of the District of Columbia 
Water Department, who rendered special assistance in the 
construction of the Peace Monument fountain, which was 
accomplished at practically no cost to the Committee. 

The Committee was also assisted very materially by the 
ready help rendered by the District Government through its 
several departments, by the granting of permits and aiding 
all street operations. The same is to be said, as to the parks, 
of Colonel Chas. S. Bromwell, of the Corps of Engineers, 
U. S. A., in charge of Public Buildings and Grounds. 

Very truly yours, 

Bernard R. Green^ 

Chairman Committee on Illumination. 



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Srp0rt of Qlommttt^^ on 3FtrphinrbB 

CuNo H. Rudolph, Chairman 

J. Fred Kelley, First Vice-Chair man 

A. E. Offutt, Second Vice-Chairman 

Frederick A. Fenning, Secretary 



To Edward J. Stellwagen, 

Chairman, Inaugural Committee. 
Dear Sir : 

The Committee on Fireworks, after giving the most care- 
ful consideration to various propositions for pyrotechnical 
display in connection with the Inaugural Ceremonies, 1909, 
submitted by ten of the leading concerns of this country, 
awarded the contract for the exhibition to the Paine Fire- 
works Company, of New York, at a cost of $3,500. The 
program selected was one of the most elaborate ever con- 
ceived, and embodied several new features never before 
given at public exhibitions. Owing to the inclement weather 
of the night before and morning of March 4th, great damage 
was done to material erected on the grounds which could 
not be repaired in time and thus a few pieces had to be 
omitted from the program ; for this, although under no legal 
obligation to do so, the contractors voluntarily reduced their 
bill $500. 

The exhibition as given was the best ever seen anywhere, 
and the exclamations of approval and admiration from the 



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multitude assembled on the "Ellipse" frequently drowned 
the noise made by exploding bombs. Citizens who viewed 
the display from elevated points all over the city agree that 
they never saw better colors or more brilliant effects, and 
were lavish in their praise. The exhibition, being practically 
all aerial, could be enjoyed from any elevation at every point 
of the compass at great distances; a special dispatch to the 
''Star" stated that as far away as Winchester, Va., many 
pieces were visible. The Committee endeavored to impress 
upon our visitors and citizens that it would not be necessary 
to journey to the firing grounds to observe the display. 
Nevertheless and notwithstanding the discomfort of standing 
in snow and slush it is conservatively estimated that from 
55,000 to 60,000 persons occupied the area around the 
"Ellipse." 

Owing to the elimination of all rockets with sticks, and 
the care exercised generally by the representatives of the 
Paine Company, not a single casualty occurred, and because 
of good management and vigilence of our police force no 
cases of disorder happened. For the comfort and safety of 
spectators, the Committee, for the first time, excluded 
horses, vehicles and automobiles from the grounds of the 
President's Park, roping off and guarding all entrances there- 
to; the results were so gratifying that we recommend this 
precaution be taken on similar occasions hereafter. 

The thanks of the Committee are due to the press of this 
and other cities for the publication of interesting articles on 
the exhibition; to the Superintendent of Public Buildings 
and Grounds for many courtesies extended; to the Major 
and Superintendent of Police and his efficient force, and to 
members of the Committee on Public Order, for valuable 
services before, during and after the display, and to the En- 
gineer Department of the District of Columbia for assisting 
in closing the entrances to the Park. 

That an exhibition of fireworks attracts and provides en- 
tertainment for the greatest number of people, and is always 

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the most popular feature of any celebration we have had 
ample evidence of time and time again. 

There is no substitute to fittingly close the festivities, and 
thousands would be disappointed if not tempted to stay away 
from the city entirely were the usual pyrotechnic display 
omitted. Nevertheless this Committee is constrained to rec- 
ommend that no more exhibitions of fireworks be attempted 
unless the date for holding the Inaugural Ceremonies is 
changed to a more propitious season. 

All efforts on the part of the Committee to prevent people 
exposing themselves needlessly have proven in vain ; in their 
enthusiasm they will stand for several hours on the soggy 
turf or mushy roadways unmindful of the icy blasts, court- 
ing all manner of ills. We trust the much desired change in 
the date may be made, so that the many thousand visitors 
and our citizens can enjoy the displays in comfort and with 
no danger to health. 

Respectfully, 



CuNO H. Rudolph, 

Chairman. 



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S^port 0f Olnmmitt^F un IHuatr 

Percy S. Foster, Chairman 

Dr. Henry G. Hanchett, Vice-Chairman 

Edward Tarring, Secretary 

Mr. Edward J. Stellwagen^ 

Chairman Inaugural Committee, 
Washington, D. C. 

My Dear Sir : 

I have the honor to present to you in behalf of the Com- 
mittee on Music of the Taft-Sherman Inaugural Ceremonies 
the following report of our work : 

The Committee was promptly organized with twenty-one 
representative musicians and business men, and from the 
beginning of its labors proceeded with a determination to 
make the musical program of the very highest order. 

After careful consideration contracts were awarded to 
Lieutenant W. H. Santelmann, of the U. S. Marine Band, 
Mr. Sol Minster and the Philippines Constabulary Band, for 
the instrumental music at the Inaugural Ball and the Con- 
certs following. All of the contracts were satisfactorily 
executed and the amounts agreed upon paid accordingly. 

Notwithstanding the weather the promenade concerts 
were very successful, paid admissions to the same being as 
follows: 

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March 5th, 10:30 A. M 3,220 

March 5th, 2:15 P M 4,455 

March 5th, 8:15 P. M 11,897 

March 6th, 2:15 P. M , 4,843 

March 6th, 8:15 P. M 4,072 

Total 28,487 



Following the custom inaugurated in 1897, the Fourth 
Inaugural Chorus of six hundred and fifty voices was organ- 
ized and rendered most excellent service at the two evening 
concerts, with the assistance of the U. S. Marine Orchestra. 

By virtue of the extra concerts the appropriation for 
music was increased over 1905 to make the total $6,674. 
Our total expenditure of every kind amounted to $6,674, 
exclusive of extra newspaper advertising amounting to $416. 
With this addition the entire budget of the Music Commit- 
tee was $7,090. 

Respectfully submitted, 

Percy S. Foster, 

Chairman. 



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S^port of ([l0mmittFF ntt S^rnratton 

James Rush IMarshall, Chairman 

J. G. Hill, Vice-Chainnan 

Arthur B. Heaton, Secretary 



To Mr. Edward J. Stellwagen, 

Chairman of the Inaugural Committee. 

Sir: 

I have the honor to submit for my Committee the follow- 
ing statement regarding the conduct of their work, tlie 
expenditures connected therewith, and some comments of 
possible advantage to a committee entrusted with a similar 
work in the future. 

The first meeting of the Committee was held on January 
11th. The time allowed for the carrying out of the work 
being shorter than on the previous Inaugural, the Com- 
mittee felt impelled to follow the same course as the previ- 
ous Committee, and with your approval, formulated its own 
scheme for decorations, and arbitrarily selected the indi- 
viduals in the various branches to execute them. 

Conduct of the Work. 

The iron beams and trolleys on the ceilings of the galleries 
were painted during the week ending February 20th. 

Work was begun by the C. H. Koster Company February 
21st; by C. A. Langley on February 23d; by the National 



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Electrical Supply Company on February 25th; by J. H 
Small & Sons on February 26th, and in each case pursued 
continuously until March 3d, when all work was completed 
except the placing of cut flowers, and the few finishing 
touches, which were done on the morning of March 4th. 

The control of the building was turned over to the Inau- 
gural Committee at the close of office hours on February 
26th. The work carried on by this Committee previous to 
that time was conducted with especial care to avoid any dis- 
turbance to the work of the Bureau, and the officials have 
stated that no serious annoyance was occasioned thereby. 

Description of the Decorations. 

The decorations consisted of a canopy arching across the 
width of the court about 100 ft. and extending its whole 
length, a distance of about 300 ft. This canopy was com- 
posed of 10 X 12 ft. units forming a series of panels or 
coffers. The bunting used was unbleached cotton with 
flounces 18 inches deep around each panel to produce the 
effect of a sunken panel. The bunting was carried across 
the lines of the large columns down to the line of the spring 
of the arch, forming lunettes, and shortening the columns, 
which were supplied with temporary Doric caps. 

The color scheme of the vault was a deep cream tint which 
was also used on the walls behind the colonnades encircling 
the court forming a background to the floral decorations. 

The walls of the arcades were light yellow, and the col- 
umns gold bronze, making the general scheme cream and 
gold. 

The music stand filled the east end of the large hall for 
about 45 ft., the seats for the musicians being arranged in 
a half -octagon rising in tiers toward the walls. In the angles 
pyramids of palms rose to a height of about 40 ft. and 
framed in the picture. The stand was designed to accommo- 
date' a band of 70 and an orchestra of 125 with supplemental 
accommodations for a chorus of 500 at the concerts. 



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The space between back of stand and railing of the second 
gallery was filled in with corrugated iron panels serving as a 
sounding board. A large trophy of American flags was sus- 
pended in front of the lunette above the music stand. The 
front of the music stand was filled with a series of panels, 
the upper one in each series being filled with gold net work 
against which Bougainvillea and Crimson Ramblers were 
used. In the corners were massed Azaleas, Crimson Ram- 
blers, and Genestas. 

At the west end the President's box projected about 15 
feet into the hall at a lower level than that of the second 
gallery, which was connected with it by a flight of broad 
steps, the brick panel of the south bay being removed for this 
purpose. The corners were cut off, forming an octagonal 
box. The floor was at the level of the capitals of the first 
story columns. This box was the width of the three sections 
of the arcade, about 30 feet. The walls of the gallery back 
of it were lined with scarlet, the central bay, with its arch 
and gold flanking columns being left open, the adjacent bays 
being filled with curtains of rich fabric in a golden tone, 
crossed overhead by a heavy lambrequin with bands of gold 
and gold fringe, the whole crowned by a trophy of Ameri- 
can flags with a gold ball and eagle as its central feature. 
This treatment made this end of the hall recede in planes 
from the floor to the flag trophy near the ceiling. 

Beneath the floor of the box the space was covered in and 
three panels were formed on the faces, the two side ones 
having Roman wreaths gilded, and the middle one large 
clusters of American Beauty roses, and American Beauty 
roses were massed on the corners of the parapet above, with 
bushes of ramblers in pink and red and American Beauty 
roses in vases drooping over the railings. 

The background against the gallery face had wreaths and 
garlands of magnolia leaves bronzed and standing in the 
corners were cedar trees. 

The walls of the building in the rear of the galleries were 

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hung with laurel roping, and laurel leaves with South- 
ern Smilax sprayed through them. The parapet and cornice 
of the front of the top gallery were covered with Southern 
Smilax with Boston ferns standing on the pedestals of the 
parapet. In the first gallery Azaleas and Crimson Ramblers 
were placed in baskets in the spandrels between arches, and 
on the cornice Forsythia was used — the whole in a field of 
Southern Smilax. 

The President's room was draped with asparagus vine and 
gilded baskets tied with yellow ribbon on the wall, and were 
filled with American Beauty roses and white lilacs. Around 
the fireplace was a trellis with asparagus vines and orchids, 
and the fire place was banked with ferns and orchids, with 
pink roses and white lilacs massed among them. On a center 
table was a mass of long stem American Beauty roses. 

The retiring room had its mantel banked with ferns, Aza- 
lias and American Beauty roses. 

The Vice-President's room was hung with Smilax and 
asparagus vines, Roman wreaths and leucothea leaves. In 
the corners were banked palms, and among them Forsythia. 

The Diplomatic room and President's supper room were 
decorated with Southern Smilax with pink roses, white lilacs, 
and ferns on the tables, and orchids on the President's table. 

In public supper room the walls were decorated with 
Southern Smilax and banks of palms. 

The walls of entrance vestibules were hung with laurel 
wreaths and cedar trees stood on the floor in the corners. 

Lighting. 

The illumination was on radically different lines from 
those followed on previous occasions ; instead of embedding 
the lights in the floral decoration, or following the structural 
lines of the architecture, the principal groups of lights were 
suspended from the vaulted ceiling in eighteen large fixtures 
composed of hexagonal frames, each carrying clusters of 
125 eight candle power lamps of frosted glass, each lamp 

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hanging from a separate wire, and the whole (Hsposed in a 
bowl-shaped mass, each bulb hanging from a white rosette, 
reflecting and softening the light. Each mass of drooping 
lights was suspended by six gilded chains secured to a sturdy 
ring and heavy chain above, suspending the entire fixture 
from the vaulted ceiling. The scheme was many small units 
with the effect of soft candle light as against the employment 
of larger and more vivid units which would fatigue the eye. 

Comments. 

The amount of smilax on the face of colonades was too 
great, making a solid mass of greenery. If it had been one- 
third less and had permitted the architectural lines to show 
through, the effect would have been better, and the color 
value of the flowers would have been enhanced. 

The thanks of the Committee are due to Mrs. A. C. Bar- 
ney, the New Willard Hotel Company of this city, and 
Mr. E. F. Caldwell, of New York, for their loans of furni- 
ture used in the President's box. 

To Mr. E. F. Caldwell, of New York, the Committee is 
indebted for valuable suggestions in the scheme of lighting, 
he having come to Washington twice for the purpose of 
advising them. 

To the initiative and labors of Mr. Victor Mindeleff and 
Miss' Grace Temple much of the successful outcome of the 
whole scheme is due. 

To Mr. J. H. Small, for the floral part, Mr. C. H. Koster, 
for the bunting, and Mr. E. C. Graham, for the electric light- 
ing, the Committee is indebted for the successful carryiner 
out of their plans. 

Respectfully, 

J. R. Marshall, 

Chairman, Committee on Decoration 
of the Ball Room, 

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Statement of Expenditures Made by the Committee on Decoration 

OF THE Ball Room. 

C. H. Koster Company, for bunting dec- 
oration — Contract $4,500.00 

C. H. Koster Company, for additional 

items — see schedule 250.00 

$4,750.00 

National Electrical Supply Co. — Con- 
tract $5,000.00 

National Electrical Supply Co., Cables 

into Pension Building 300.00 

National Electrical Supply Co., Electric 

Current 136.00 

— $5,436.00 

J. H. Small & Sons — Contract 5,000.00 

Joseph W. Collins, for taking out and replacing 

brick parapet behind President's box 100.00 

W. B. Moses & Sons, for furniture for rooms 

for the President and Vice-President 100.00 

J. B. Morrey, for moving chairs — President's 

box — to and from Pension Office 6.75 

Fabian Columbus, for painting iron beams and 

trolley irons under galleries 70.00 

R. S. Gielow, for blue prints 9.48 

Washington Woodworking Company, for false 

caps to main columns 120.00 

C. A, Langley, for building President's stand, 
musician's stand, hospital divisions, work 
around fountain, etc. 1,375.00 

The Welsbach Company for emergency gas fix- 
tures 135.00 

The Washington Gas Light Company, for gas 

used 1340 

Fabian Columbus, for painting repaired plas- 
tering in Pension Building 90.00 

J. J. Earley, for repairing plastering in Pension 

Building 403.65 

Fabian Columbus, for painting additional re- 
paired plastering in Pension Building 10.00 

$17,619.28 



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Olflmmttt^^ nn Qlom&rt at lall 

Major James E. Bell, Chairman 

Alexander Grant, Vice-Chairman 

C. Fred Cook, Secretary 



Mr, Edward J. Stellwagen, 

Chairman Inaugural Committee. 
Sir: 

It affords me great pleasure to submit this report of the 
work of the Committee on Comfort at Ball, believing it will 
place in your possession, aside from the details of prepara- 
tion and execution of the various phases of its duties, some 
definite and important information relative to the time, 
which an Inaugural Committee would probably occupy the 
Pension Building, should it at a future time be used for 
such purposes. 

Based upon hypothesis that a similar condition as that 
recently experienced by the committee might arise, it will be 
charitable to your successor to place him in possession of 
actual past experience for his information and guidance. 

It is unfortunate that the following letter from Commis- 
sioner Murphy was not available when Congressional sanc- 
tion for the occupancy of the Pension Building was first 
sought, as it is believed that it would have speedily and 
effectively removed the only serious objection to the propo- 
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"Department of the Interior^ 
Office of the Commission^ Bureau of Pensions^ 
Washington, D. C, February 8, i8gy. 

Colonel Cecil Clay, 
City. 

Sir: 

In response to your letter of this date asking for an esti- 
mate of the loss to the Government caused by the use of the 
Pension Building for the inaugural ball, I have to say, that 
such use practically causes the loss of six days' time of the 
entire office force, whose salary for that period aggregates 
thirty-one thousand six hundred and twenty-four dollars and 
forty-five cents. 

Very respectfully, 

(Signed) D. Murphy, 

Commissioner." 

This letter was in response to an inquiry made by the late 
Colonel Cecil Clay, of the District National Guard, who was 
seeking information to submit to Congress in support of a 
bill for the erection of an Armory which would contain a 
drill hall of sufficient size to accommodate the inaugural 
balls of the future. 

It is apparent from the date of the letter that the data 
related to the Cleveland Inaugural of 1893, at which time the 
clerical force of the Pension Office was much larger than at 
present, including the Pension Agency and the additional 
Bureaus of the Interior Department now located in the 
building. 

To a request made personally of Mr. L. B. Stine, of the 
Pension Office, Custodian of the Building, for information 
relative to the time lost by the employees at this time, the 
following reply was received : 

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"Department of the Interior, 
Bureau of Pensions, 
Washington, D. C, March 12, 1909. 
Major James E. Bell, 
Washington, D. C. 

My Dear Major : 

In response to your personal request for a statement from 
me as the representative of the Inaugural Committee during 
the time that the Pension Office Building was under the con- 
trol of the Committee, as to the time the employees quit and 
resumed work in the Bureau, I have to advise you that the 
official force was dismissed Friday evening, February 26th, 
and they were directed to report for duty Monday morning 
at 9.00 o'clock, March 8th. The entire force on the third 
floor and three of the five divisions on the second floor 
were engaged in work until 3.00 o'clock p. m., when on 
account of the noise made by the contractor and the low tem- 
perature of the building, they were excused for the remain- 
der of the day. No part of the force on the first floor was at 
work on Monday, March 8th. On Tuesday morning, the 
furniture and files were completely restored and the entire 
force of the Bureau resumed work. 

Very respectfully, 

(Signed) L. B. Stine.'' 

Mr. Stine's statement relates solely to the employees of 
the Pension Bureau and does not mention the Pension 
Agency, the clerks of which worked without interruption 
during the time the building was occupied by the Committee, 
save March 4th, which was observed by them as a holiday, 
as was the case of all other Government employees, nor the 
other Bureaus of the Interior Department, located on the 
third floor, a number of whose employees were temporarily 
returned to the main offices and continued service without 
loss of time to the government. Some of the Geological 
Survey employees continued on duty reporting each day until 
the P. M. of March 3d. 

In response to a request from the Secretary of the Interior 
for a detail of clerks from the Pension Bureau to render 



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assistance in other Bureaus of his Department during the 
time the Committee had charge of the building, over fifty 
clerks volunteered their services, all of which tends to show 
that the time stated by Commissioner Murphy in 1893, as to 
number of days lost to the government practically obtains at 
this date and that the loss to the government in sala- 
ries must have been considerably less than at any previous 
inauguration. 

The work of this Committee is now a matter of history, 
and in connection with every other branch of the successful 
event can be dwelt upon with no vain regrets in so far as 
human agency entered into its calculations. At each stage 
of our work, the support and encouragement of yourself and 
Secretary Thom, with the helpfulness of the members of the 
Committee made the numerous details appear insignificant. 
The selection by you of Mr. Latimer B. Stine, Chief of the 
Army and Navy Division of the Pension Office, as Custodian 
of the building and superintendent of the removal and re- 
storation of the furniture and files, was a most happy one. 
His acceptability to the Pension officials, with his knowledge 
of every branch of the Department, facilitated the work to 
a marked degree. Much of the furniture, though old and 
dilapidated, was but slightly damaged by its frequent hand- 
ling; the entire cost for the repairs being less than $35.00, 
which amount includes the renovation and relaying of car- 
pets in two of the rooms. 

The contract for the 10,102 hat boxes was executed with 
despatch and to our entire satisfaction. 

The apprehension which existed, as to the ability of the 
contractor for the removal of the furniture, to perform the 
same for the sum of $375.00, which in view of other bids 
appeared to be exceedingly low, was without foundation. 

The work was speedily and well done, due largely, how- 
ever, to the intelligent supervision of Superintendent Stine 
and his assistants. 

The officials of the Pension Bureau were very considerate 

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and helpful to this Committee when opportunity offered. 
Through the generosity of the Great Bear Spring Company, 
the patrons of the ball and concerts were supplied with 
wholesome drinking water for which I commend it for rec- 
ognition. 

This Committee may be pardoned for the satisfaction it 
experienced in so conducting its affairs as to have remaining 
to its credit at the conclusion of its labors a substantial bal- 
ance from the allotment made for its use ; it also felicitates 
itself upon the many encomiums passed upon its work, but 
chiefly at its share in contributing to the success of the 
ceremony as a whole, which for grandeur of conception and 
completeness of detail exceeded that of former years. 

Having had the honor of filling the position which I now 
fill in connection with the seven previous Inaugural Ceremo- 
nies and witnessing in each the increased splendor over its 
predecessor, it is but fair to say that by comparison the 
recent ceremony under your chairmanship was planned to 
eclipse them all. 

In conclusion, on behalf of this Committee, whose mem- 
bership deeply appreciates the interest and confidence evinced 
by you in its work of preparation for the ball, and person- 
ally, I thank you. 

Accompanying account shows receipts and disbursements. 

Committee on Comfort at Ball, 1909. 

Dr. 

To allotment for Committee's work $2,900.00 

To amount received from sale of Crex from Vice- 
President's rooms 20.00 

To amount received from Geo. W. Evans, disbursing 

officer 16.51 

$2,936.51 
Credit 

By amount paid for hat boxes, etc $984.84 

By amount paid for removal of furniture 381.00 

By amount paid for advertising, proposals 50>oo 



Amounts forward $1,415.84 2,936.51 

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Brought forward $1,415.84 $2,936.51 

By amount paid for printing duplicate checks 75-00 

By amount paid for hire of furniture 41-75 

By amount paid for section and other signs 29.00 

By amount paid for Kretol Co. (disinfectant). 7.50 

By amount paid for floor covering, V.-P. room- 75.00 

By amount paid for attaching duplicate checks- 15-00 

By amount paid for hauling 3.00 

By amount paid for relaying carpets 16.50 

By amount paid R. P. Andrews Paper Co. 2.70 

By amount paid I. Small 1.80 

By amount paid C. G. Stott & Co 2.80 

By amount paid House Wares Store 1.80 

By amount paid S. N. Meyer i.oo 

By amount paid American Ice Co. 4.00 

By amount paid Thomas Keely 4.00 

By amount paid The R. P. Clark Co. 14.40 

By amount paid for miscellaneous items 13-25 

By amount paid for pay rolls 1,008.60 

2,732.94 

Balance to credit of Committee $203.57 

I have the honor to subscribe myself, 

Yours very sincerely, 

James E. Bell, 
Chairman Committee on Comfort at Ball. 



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Export flf tlj0 Moot Olnmmttt?^ 

Gist Blair, Chairman 
Thomas F. Walsh, Vice-Chairman 



Mr. Edward J. Stellwagen, 

Chairman Inaugural Committee, 
Washington, D. C. 

Dear Sir: 

I have to advise you that the work of the Floor Committee 
at the inaugural ball does not admit of any very long report. 

The Floor Committee was composed of representatives 
from the different States called ''Aides," and about five hun- 
dred and fifty members from the city of Washington, the 
names of whom are set forth in the printed pamphlet which 
I herewith enclose. The committee had three rehearsals for 
the purpose of organization and to become familiar with 
their work ; these rehearsals were all well attended and at 
two of them, by means of a map, I explained their duties; 
the last rehearsal at the Pension Building enabled the mem- 
bers of the Committee attending to see exactly what was re- 
quired of them. 

At the ball the Committee cleared and kept clear a space 
on the floor for the grand march of the Presidential party, 
which is shown on the pamphlet I enclose. All the 



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members were earnest in their work and seemed to assist 
cheerfully and those particularly in charge of the sections 
devoted to dancing kept the floor clear during the entire 
evening so as to enable visitors to dance at any time. The 
entire cost charged against the Inaugural Floor Committee 
is well within the amount appropriated for the expenses, 
consisting in printing and flowers. 

Mr. Thos. F. Walsh, Vice-Chairman of the Floor Com- 
mittee, rendered the most efficient and unselfish service prior 
to the ball and during the entire evening on the floor. 

Yours sincerely. 

Gist Blair, 
Chairman Floor Committee. 



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Arthur C. Moses, Chairman 
D. J. Callahan, V ice-Chairman 



Mr. Edward J. Stellwagen, 

Chairman Inaugural Committee. 

Dear Sir : 

The total amount expended as per vouchers rendered is 
$4,178.32. This item includes $2,500.00 for the furnishing 
of supper for the public, as per contract, $1, 061.92 for the 
construction of the kitchen, pantry, etc., $53.30 for the use 
(damage and loss) of 200 chairs in the supper room, 
$461.60 for the Presidential supper and $101.50 for deco- 
rating the President's supper rooms. 

Receipts from the sale of tickets at $1.50 per ticket, 
$1,603.50, showing a net loss of $2,574.82. The Supper 
Committee allotment was $4,500.00, leaving a balance of 
$1,925.18. 

If the cost of the Presidential supper and decorations 
of the two rooms were not charged to the Supper Com- 
mittee, and it is contended it should not be, the loss would 
have been $2,011.72. 

In view of the small patronage given the supper rooms, 
which amounted to about 15 per cent of the attendance 
at the ball, I desire to recommend for consideration four 
years hence that no supper for the public be given. 

Respectfully submitted, 

Arthur C. Moses, 
Chairman Supper Committee. 



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QlnmmtttFF nn ICnral QlrattHpnrtattnn 

Joseph M. Stoddard, Chairman 

E. S. Marlow, Vice-Chairman 

George Weaver, Secretary 

Mr. Edward J. Stellwagen, 

Chairman Inaugural Committee, 
Washington, D. C. 

Dear Sir : 

I beg leave to report to you the completion of the work 
of the sub-committee on Local Transportation for the Inau- 
guration of President Taft and Vice-President Sherman, of 
which Committee I had the honor to be Chairman. 

The principal duties of this Committee were the building 
of platforms, corridors and carriage sheds on the four sides 
of the Pension Building to accommodate those who attended 
the Inaugural Ball. 

Due to the change of transportation conditions of four 
years ago, on account of the increased number of automo- 
biles, it was found advisable to build one more platform and 
entrance than had been used heretofore, namely, the one on 
Fourth Street, which was used by the various taxicab com- 
panies, who pooled their interests so that a person going in 
the cab of one company could take the first cab at the plat- 
form upon departing from the building. This same arrange- 
ment was made with twenty-five liverymen who used the G 
Street platform and entrance. Both arrangements proved 

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to be eminently satisfactory. All other horsedrawn vehicles 
used the fifth Street entrance, and carriage numbers were 
given out at the platform and called by telephone from the 
inside of the building. From the booth at the corner of the 
park, the numbers were megaphoned for three blocks down 
the waiting line of carriages. 

The F Street entrance was given up to private automobiles 
and the numbers were called in the same manner as the car- 
riages at the Fifth Street door. 

The entire arrangement of handling vehicles on the night 
of the ball proved to be very satisfactory. 

As near as we can estimate, there were about three thou- 
sand vehicles handled at the four platforms during the even- 
ing. This included, however, various carriages and taxicabs 
which made several round trips. 

In addition to the above work, this committee was held 
responsible for emergency exits, six of which were con- 
structed at the Pension Building, but fortunately were not 
required. 

Assuring you of my appreciation of the honor conferred 
upon me by appointment as Chairman of the Committee on 
Local Transportation, I have the honor to be 

V^ery respectfully yours, 

J. M. Stoddard, 
Chairman Coimnittee on Local Transportation. 



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Richard N. Brooke, Chairman 

Frank P. Reeside_, Vice-Chairman 

Henry E. Cooper, Secretary 

Washington, D. C, July 7, 1909. 

Edward J. Stellwagen, Esq., 

Chairman, Inaugural Committee, 
Washington^ B.C. 

Dear Sir : 

Pursuant to the appointment of the undersigned as Chair- 
man of the Committee on Medals and Badges for the Inau- 
guration of President Taft, the following gentlemen were 
nominated as members of this Committee, and their appoint- 
ment confirmed by you as the Chairman of the General Com- 
mittee, namely: Mr. Frank P. Reeside, Vice-Chairman; 
Mr. Henry E. Cooper, Secretary ; and Messrs. William B. 
Closson, Edmund C. Messer, Victor Mindeleff, Gen. Ellis 
Spear, Messrs. Meyer Cohen, V. G. Fischer, C. Powell 
Minnigerode, Francis D. Millet, and Mitchell Carroll addi- 
tional members. 



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In the composition of a Committee of which five were 
artists, three engaged in vocations calHng for the constant 
exercise of artistic taste, and four had been members of 
former Inaugural Committees on Medals and Badges, it was 
sought to enroll a body favorable to the most satisfactory 
results. 

Mr. Victor D. Brenner, a sculptor of reputation, consented 
to produce the design for the medal, but subsequently find- 
ing the allowance of time too short, the Committee had re- 
course to Messrs. Joseph K. Davison's Sons, of Philadelphia, 
producers of former Inaugural Medals, and who contracted 
to furnish a medal larger in size, more artistic in style, and 
more elaborate in finish than the usual commercial medal, 
upon terms which the Committee regarded as reasonable. 

While the simple and tasteful design of the badge em- 
ployed in former Inaugurations was adhered to, the Com- 
mittee endeavored, by a judicious variation of the colors 
thereof, to still further distinguish the several Committees. 
As the result of its labors, although the number both of 
badges and medals far exceeded the original estimate, the 
Committee were able to furnish them at the time called for 
in its contract with the manufacturers. The contract for 
badges having been awarded by the Committee to S. N. 
Meyer & Son, of Washington, the proximity of this firm en- 
abled us to supply deficiencies upon short notice. 

A statement of the expenditures incurred by this Com- 
mittee, appended hereto, will show that it has kept within 
the allowance voted it by the General Committee, and has 
not exceeded the outlay for these items at former Inaugura- 
tions. 

I have the honor to be. 

Very respectfully yours, 

Richard N. Brooke, 
Chairman of the Committee on Medals and Badges. 



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Statement of Expenditures of the Committee on Medals and Badges. 
Inauguration of President William H. Taft, ]\Iarch 4, 1909. 

Jos. K. Davison's Sons — 3,000 Bronze Medals at 46 2-:^) c $1,400.00 

Jos. K. Davison's Sons — 3 Gold Medals at $83.33 i-3 250.00 

Jos. K. Davison's Sons — Agreed allowance to die-cutter 100.00 

Jos. K. Davison's Sons — 3 Cases for Gold Aledals at $3.50 10.50 

S. N. Meyer & Sons — 3,800 Badges, as per bill rendered 367.67 

Carl K. Frey, Photographer — 8 views of Hon. Jas. S. Sherman- 25.00 
Walden Fawcett, Photographer — Photos of Hon. William H. 

Taft 15.00 

Harris & Ewing, Photographer — Photos of Hon. William H. 

Taft 3.00 

Office Expenses, expressage, telegrams, postage and stationery. 9.62 

Travelling expenses 7.25 



$2,188.06 



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S^pnrt 0f tljf ©rpHBur^r 



Mr. Edward J. Stellwagen, 

Chairinan Inaugural Committee. 

My Dear Sir : 

I beg to submit the following, my final report, the details 
of which are fully covered in the reports of the Finance and 
Auditing Committees : 

Received from subscriptions $86,720.00 

Received from various committees 95,823.68 

Total $182,543.68 

Paid as per vouchers herewith prop- 
erly audited and countersigned by 
yourself $91,863.18 

Returned to subscribers 86,720.00 

178,583-18 ■ 

Balance in bank $3,960.00 

I have the honor to be, with high personal regard, 

Very sincerely yours, 

Clarence F. Norment^ 

Treasurer. 

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iSrport uf llj^ Aubtttng (Enmmitlrr 

Andrew Parker, Chairman 

Sydney R. Jacobs, Vice-Chairman 

Harry G. Meem, Secretary 



Washington, October 1, 1909 

Mr. Edward J. Stellwagen, 

Chairman Inaugural Committee, 
Washington, D. C. 
Sir: 

This Committee has examined all matters pertaining to 
the financial transactions of the Inaugural Committee., 
audited before payment all vouchers presented by the Chair- 
men of the various su1j-committees, and has kept a full and 
complete record of all receipts and disbursements by the 
Treasurer, a statement of which is herewith submitted. 

The Committee was also represented at all the entrances 
of the Pension Building during the Ball and Concerts, and 
took charge of all tickets collected, which, together with all 
those unsold, were counted and verified, as per accompany- 



mg statements. 



Respectfully submitted, 



Andrew Parker, 

Chairman. 



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Statement of Funds Received and Disbursed by the Treasurer of 
THE Inaugural Committee. 

Receipts. 

Guarantee Fund $86,720.00 

Reviewing Stands 32„237.95 

Ball Tickets 44,845.00 

Supper Tickets 1,603.50 

Concert Tickets 14,243.50 

Souvenirs 282.40 

Cash admissions, supper 18.00 

National Electric Supply Co. (Refund) 50.00 

Sale Duplex Calls 40.00 

Comfort at Ball Committee (Returned unused 

funds) - 52.16 

Profit on Programs 1,251.17 

Certified checks returned 1,200.00 



$182,543.68 



Disbursements. 

Guarantee Fund returned $86,720.00 

Amounts disbursed by Committees, as per state- 
ment herev^ith 91,863.18 

Balance in hands of Treasurer 3,960.50 

$182,543.68 



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Concert, Saturday afternoon, March 6, 190Q. 

Tickets delivered to Finance Committee 18,000 

Unsold tickets I3,i57 

Tickets sold 4,843 

Tickets collected 4,799 

Tickets sold but not collected 44 

(Note: The Finance Committee issued passes to the Police and Firemen for 
this concert, and 170 passes were collected at the doors.) 

Concert, Saturday evening, March 6, iQog. 

Tickets delivered to Finance Committee 20,000 

Unsold tickets 15,928 

Tickets sold 4,072 

Tickets collected 4,056 

Tickets sold but not collected 16 



Condensed Ticket Statement. 
All Concerts. 

Total number of tickets delivered to Finance Committee 

Unsold tickets 

Tickets sold ; 

Tickets collected 

Tickets sold but not collected 



85,000 
56,513 

28,487 
28,231 

256 



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MARCH 6, 1909 "THE SPECTATOR" 

"Here yon are! Milk chocolates for a light lunch!" car- 
oled the train-boy, unweariedly. 1 he train had started from 
Jersey City at nine-fifty-five Wednesday morning, scheduled 
to arrixe in Washington at three twenty-one. It was now 
after four, and Baltimore not yet reached. There was no 
dining-car on the train, and no sustenance except chocolates 
and chewing-gum. The frantic rain was driving through the 
closed ventilators and dripping into little pools on the floor. 
The train had stopped, stalled by other trains ahead — some 
said thirty of them, specials, had started before it did. Men 
were curled up in the seats, asleep. Women were eating 
caramels and looking haggard. The train-boy had sold 
everybody some kind of magazine or paper, and periodical 
literature was scattered everywhere like leaves in Vallom- 
brosa. Suddenly one man, unfolding a sheet, paused and 
read aloud, in a tone of hopeless cheerfulness, the flaring 
headlines : 



INAUGURATION TOMORROW 
W^ILL HAVE SMILING SKIES." 

The effect was electric. From end to end the car laughed. 
''Read it again!" ''Don't believe it, but it sounds good!" 
"Keep whistling!" came from various quarters. The engine 
gave a pull ; the cars moved ; everybody sat up and hope 
revived for ten minutes at least. Then came a sweep of 
rushing rain; a slackening of the engine, and ilie train 
stopped again; And so again and again and again. It was a 
long journey that day to the Inauguration City. 

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But still, at eight in the evening, the Spectator's train got 
there, and was, in that respect, luckier than many others 
which followed it. Washington was as dripping and 
drowned and uncomfortable as possible that night, and all its 
brilliant decorations and lights were drenched in the flooding 
downpour as the Spectator drove through the streets to his 
hotel. But the scene to which he woke on Inauguration Day 
was almost unimaginable. The windows were dimmed with 
snow-spray, a whirling blizzard was raging, the streets were 
ten inches deep in a soft snow which turned fast to indescrib- 
able slush, the wires were coated in ice half an inch thick, 
the wind was roaring a gale which left no umbrella un- 
turned. The clerk in the hotel office was ordering storm- 
rubbers by the dozen for confiding guests, taking down sizes 
reassuringly on a sheet of paper, as if he really intended to 
get a good fit for them. The elevator boy was frankly pessi- 
mistic. ''Never had it like this before," he declared, ''not 
even when Harrison was inaugurated." Yet the great 
American crowd was not daunted. The break f asters were 
all hurrying to go down and see the President and his suc- 
cessor drive out f I'om the White House. Blizzard or no bliz- 
zard, rubbers or no rubbers, it was Inauguration Day, and 
they meant to keep faith with the paiade, the fire works, and 
all the rest of it. 

Soothed and sustained by their unfaltering trust, the Spec- 
tator started out too. The rubbers had come, and were all 
the wrong sizes, and exactly double price ; but no one mur- 
mured, for no more could be gotten, and each misfit pair was 
more precious than rubies to its fortunate possessor, since the 
slush stretched in deep pools, already, at each crossing. On 
Pennsylvania Avenue the street-cleaners, six thousand 
strong, were working like mad against time to clear the 
marching course, and on the sidewalks, in the beautiful 
Court of Honor, an augmenting throng tramped and 
retramped snow into slush and slush into water-pools. 
The decorations were thoroughly glace — snow-tipped and 

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frozen, but still extremely beautiful against the white of the 
storm. Wreathed pillars and gay pedestal flower baskets, 
broad flags and streaming pennants, and all the gold and 
white and flying colors of the scheme of decoration, shone 
palely but bravely through wind and snow. Umbrellas were 
useless in the gale, so the crowds stood unprotected, watching 
the White House gate, which was guarded by the crack Ohio 
cavalry troop, Mr. Taft's guard of honor for the day. 
''Ohio's it!'' an Ohio citizen beside the Spectator proudly 
declared, as the Presidential carriage and four swept out of 
the gate at last, closed so tightly that only dim forms could 
be discerned through its frosty windows. 

The Spectator journeyed down to the Capitol in a packed 
car, whose conductor frankly admitted that he did not know 
just where they were going, as all the cars were ''mixed up." 
On the ankle-deep sidewalks, coming in droves from every 
cross-street, people were plodding determinedly toward the 
Capitol — young and old, men, women, and children. At the 
end of the line, a block from the famous east front, the Spec- 
tator got out and joined the crowd. The wind had abated, 
and a man on the corner was selling umbrellas, "Only fifty 
cents, and large enough for two!" and reaping a harvest, 
with a partner in the background guarding a rapidly dimin- 
ishing stock. The throng tramped and splashed, splashed 
and tramped along. It was so thick that no one could pick his 
or her steps, or see the path an inch ahead; so in and out of 
foot-deep pits of icy slush went one and all, up, up, toward 
the Capitol. The stand for the oath of oflice and the side- 
walk stands for viewing it were alike covered with snow, so 
that the luckless holders of seats were quite as badly off as 
the rest. Between standing in slush and sitting in a snow- 
bank there is not much choice. Moreover, it was more than 
rumored that the oath would be given inside the Senate 
Chamber (and it turned out that it was, for the first time 
since Andrew Jackson's day), insomuch that the game 
seemed hardly worth the candle. The Spectator, for his 

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part, did not want to see the ceremony, but only the scene 
and the crowd ; and, having extricated himself from the thick 
of the slush, he returned by a quieter street, to meet two 
women, one of them delicate and elderly, dragging a sled 
with two tiny children on it. Boldly they pushed on, and 
drove into the thickest of the throng, and the Spectator was 
left gaping after them, and wondering which would develop 
first in that united and foolhardy family — croup or pneu- 
monia. 

It was said that eighteen thousand pounds of sand were 
sprinkled on the Avenue, after the snow was cleared. Never- 
theless, the true honors in the line of sand went to those 
who marched, and to those, too, who stood along the streets, 
ankle-deep, or sat and watched from the snow-clad, wind- 
swept seats of the uncovered stands. Even in the well- 
roofed stand in the Court of Honor, where the Spectator sat, 
it could not be called comfortable. Rumors, besides, were in 
the air that the parade had lost half its glory; that the Sev- 
enth Regiment was blocked by the blizzard somewhere north 
of Baltimore ; that other organizations had decided not to 
attempt the march ; that the midshipmen were lost in the 
shuffle; that everything was going wrong. But no one 
budged, whether standing soaking in the slush along the 
street, pressing against the ropes, or seated on newspapers 
in a chair coated with thin ice; and when the first strains of 
music were heard, and the sun broke faintly through the 
snow-laden trees and lighted the flags over the new Presi- 
dent's head, there was as much enthusiasm as if there had 
been no weather to speak of. On came the regulars in khaki, 
the generals and admirals, the men of the fleet that had just 
circled the globe, the West Point cadets, who were applauded 
to the echo ; the field artillery, pack mules and all ; the field 
music, primitive and stirring; the trim, brown little Filipino 
band ; the Fifth Infantry, with its regimental record of one 
hundred and eleven years. Then, after the Nation, the 
States came, with their Governors, each with his caracoling 



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staff, and their crack organizations. Little Delaware led off, 
as first to ratify the Constitution. Massachusetts showed 
the Fifth Regiment, and Virginia the Richmond Blues, with 
their tossing white plumes. New York, shorn of the Seventh 
Regiment (which, however, was reviewed next day all by 
itself in great state by President Taft), nevertheless had in 
Governor Hughes the greatest attraction in the parade, win- 
ning storms of applause all along the line. ''There's the man 
who isn't afraid of the bosses!" cried a man near the Spec- 
tator. ''Hughes ! hip, hip, hurray !" And the stand rang 
with the spreading cheer. It was a great parade, even if only 
three-fifths of it ever got there. 

"See that old Lincoln flag?" said the Spectator's neighbor, 
a gray-haired veteran, as the German Tum-Verein of the 
District of Columbia carried it proudly by. "That was car- 
ried in the parade of 1861 — and a very small parade it was. 
No such crowds there — no, indeed ! We had troops in the 
streets to suppress any insurrection or riot. No crowd up at 
the Capitol, either. I saw and heard Lincoln make his inau- 
gural address ; but as I didn't know how famous it was going 
to be, I did not notice much of it, except one sentence — 'I 
have sworn to enforce the laws, and I will do it.' That I 
remember, and the way Lincoln looked when he said it. It 
was a clear day, but there was a gloom all through the city — 
just the opposite of today, when even the blizzard can't dis- 
courage the people !" 

The Spectator is free to confess that he enjoyed the Inau- 
gural Ball more than any other feature of the day. It is the 
fashion to decry the ball, even when one goes to it. As a mat- 
ter of fact, there was no crush, the hall was stately and even 
magnificent in its decoration, the uniforms and ball gowns 
left nothing to be desired in glitter and color, and the com- 
pany was interesting to an unusual degree. The Spectator, 
in the gallery where the diplomats, the Senators and Cabinet, 
the Governors and officials, with their families and guests, 
came and went around the President and his party, found it 



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as entertaining a spot, socially, as any he had ever been in. 
It was a dramatic moment, too, when, after the President 
and Vice-President and their wives had made their circuit in 
the hall, passing through the lane formed in the vast throng, 
and had gone upstairs, the people waited, with upturned 
faces, till the new Chief Magistrate should appear in the high 
Presidential box between the great pillars. To look down 
upon those ten thousand faces, serious and loyal in the midst 
of their gayety, was to feel the power of the Republic with a 
new thrill. 

But — since loyalty is firm, and the Republic challenges all 
shocks — why not have Inauguration Day in April ? 




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Statement of Allotments and Expenditures of All Committees. 

ExpENDi- Expendi- 
tures MORE TURES LESS 

than than 

Committee Allotment Expended Allotment Allotment 

Finance $1,350.00 $2,024.07 $674.07 

Reception 29.00 29.00 

Legislation 

Press 500.00 534-50 34.50 

Transportation 

Public Order 198.75 198.75 

Auditing 

R. R. Terminal 

Civic Organizations 500.00 ^445.80 54-20 

Military Organizations 1,064.50 1,065.40 .90 

Fireworks 3,500.00 3,078.77 421.23 

Historic Sites 500.00 'iT7-2<) 122.71 

Public Comfort 2,000.00 1,830.05 169.95 

Souvenir and Tickets 5,500.00 5,189.41 310.59 

Medals and Badges 2,300.00 2,190.91 109.09 

Local Transportation 4,000.00 4,224.43 224.43 

Floor 200.00 144.50 55.50 

Printing 

Reviewing Stands 14,600.00 15,287.65 687.65 

Street Decorations 13,000.00 12,953.27 46.73 

Illuminations 6,500.00 4,991.18 1,508.82 

Ballroom Decorations 18,000.00 17,619.28 380.72 

Comfort at Ball 2,900.00 2,766.10 i33-90 

Supper 4,500.00 4,178.32 321.68 

Music 6,674.90 7,090.00 415-10 

Inaugural t5,684.oo 5,684.00 



$91,902.68 



^Includes item of $39.50 reimbursed to Committee on Military Organi- 
zations and not taken up in Treasurer's Report. 

Includes $1,200 deposited with Superintendent of Public Buildings and 
Grounds and returned (see preceding statement). 



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Ticket Statement. 

Inaugural Ball, Thursday Evening, March 4, igog. 

Tickets delivered to Finance Committee 13,500 

Unsold tickets 4,53i 

Ball tickets sold .- 8,969' 

Ball tickets collected 8,680 

Tickets sold but not collected 289 

Supper, Inaugural Ball. 

Tickets delivered to Finance Committee 6,000 

Unsold tickets 4,93i 

Slipper tickets sold 1,069 

Supper tickets collected 997 

Tickets sold but not collected 72 

(Note: The sum of $18.00 in cash was collected, for which no tickets were 
issued, and turned over to the Treasurer, and accounted for in the general state- 
ment of his account.) 

Concert, Friday morning, March 5, igog. 

Tickets delivered to Finance Committee 15,000 

Unsold tickets 11,780 



Tickets sold 3,220 

Tickets collected 3,204 



Tickets sold but not collected 



Concert, Friday afternoon, March 5, igog. 

Tickets delivered to Finance Committee 12,000 

Unsold tickets 7,545 



Tickets sold 4,455 

Tickets collected 4,405 



Tickets sold but not collected 50 



Concert, Friday evening, March 5, igog. 

Tickets delivered to Finance Committee 20,000 

Unsold tickets 8,103 



Tickets sold 11..897 

Tickets collected 11,767 



Tickets sold but not collected 130 

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